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Weekly Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1841), 1846-04-01

Weekly Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1841), 1846-04-01 page 1

vLY OHIO STATE JO U it. VOLUME XXXVI. COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1846. NUMBER 32. PUBLISH!,!) EVEKY WEDNESDAY MOKMNU. I cisely opposite to that which he wns instructed to fol- BY CHARLES SCOTT & CO. Office iu the Journal liuildinir. souihDiut corner of High street and Su'ur alley . TKHMS; Tn h ce Dollars p:b aswum, which may bediHrlinrund by the puynieut of Two Dou.Alts in ailvniieo, nnd free of juMt.'iytt, or of per rentane to ALfPiitu or Cnlleetors. The Journal in also published iluily dnrinir the session of the l.RHiHhture, and thrice a wtink tint remainder of the ) uur for $j f and three limus a weult, yenriy, for t. rniliRSDAY EVENING, IWAItCH 20, lMO Whiff City Nominutioiis. The Whigs of the City met in the severul wards on Tuesday evening lost, pursuant to notice, and made their nominations for Council men and Assessors. The meetings were numerously attended, showing that a considerable amount of interest is felt. The follow ing are the nominations : First War d. Robert ftiordnn, John Miller, Richard Jonei. Assessor Joel Searls. Second Ward. For Council men, Joseph Ilidgway, jr., Benjamin Bluke, E. N. Hlocuin. Assessor 8. T. Heffher. Third Ward." Henry Butler, Clark Higgins, Win. Armstrong.-Assessor Adams Stewart. Fourth Ward. Win, Harrison, James Brydeii, Tiioi. F. Jones. Assessor Horton Howard. Fifth Ward. Jerrod Shed, Adam Waggoner, Fraukenberff. JlMsetsorV t'tah Stotts. Tlie Whigs of the Township did not nominate a candidate for Assessor. The following delegates were appointed to the Convention that meets this evening: N. Merion, George Fraukeuherg, Alfred Kelly and Robert Neil. As the delegates of the various wards have not all been handed in, we have not attempted to give a list of them. letter of Abbott I.nu'reucc. Wo commence to-day, one of the admirable letters of Abbott Lawju-.sce, Ksq., to Hon. W. C. Rivks, of Va.( on the subject or ihe Tariff. Wo need not tell the people of Ihe. West who Abbot Lawrence is. Extensively engaged for many years, in manufacturing, and holding at this time nn interest in some of the eastern establishments, he is able to upeuk of the Tariff from a personal knowledge of its operalions. He is known, throughout the eastern and middle Stale, as a man of extensive acquirements nnd unblemished reputation. His opinions are the result of experience and close observation, and as such will go as tar as those of any other man on the subject of the Tariff. Hut be deals with fait, facts collected from ten thousand sources, with unfailing accuracy. His facts none have attempted to gainsay. They speak for themselves, nnd they speak trumpet-tongued. It is to them In appeals as a friend of protection, and to them he point for a triumphant vindication of tin wisdom and beneficence of the protective policy of the country. Like an avalanche, they bear down all before them, leaving not an inch of ground, as a foothold for the enemies American Labor and enterprise We are sure that no one can arise from their perusal, without be in j wiser and better prepared to perform the duties of a good citizen. His letters should he read and preserved by all. We shall finish the one in hand in our next, and give another as soon us this is fairly digested. 10 The following notice of proceedings in tho new County of Athlaiid, erected by the late Leg mint lire, is from the Wooater Democrat: (The county of Ashland contains a Locofoco majority, it is said, of five or six hundred.) AtMii.ANii CorsTr Nominations. A meeting of Delegates assembled at Jeromeville, nn Tuesday lust, tor the purpose of nominating candidates for county othres. I he following are I lie selections. Commisnionrrshmuih Thomas, Orantre township; E. 8. liibbert, Huuover township ; Abtier Christ Rug-; gles township. j Treasurer d. W. t rie, Montgomery township. Sheriff J.imes Doty, Miflln township. Itetordtr Ann I. Reed, l'erry township. Snrreyor Keen, jr., Jaekson township. Coroner Jacob Miller, l'erry township. .I ii ill tor Hiirh Burns, Milton township. V. Attorney Donalds' m, Hanover township. The above ore nil Locofucos but two, and are in favor of locating Ihe county seat at Ashland. On the same diy a mass meeting was held at Hays-ville, at whieh a ticket was put in nomination favorable to that place ; but we have not been able to obtain the names. Another Libeller "Hrontrht tip Standing!1 And not exactly landing either ; but, to carry out the nautical figure, " thrown on his beam end." In order to render obnoxious, if possible, the acts of the Legislature during the past two years, in the preparation of which Mr. Kei.i.ky has performed quite an active part, much to the interest of the Stale the Lo-cofoco press of the Slate has, on all occasions, assailed with the deepest malignity, all his public acts, and endeavored to produce the impression that lie has been im. pel led, in all his labors, by selfish and corrupt motives. His public career is less vulnerable, perhaps, than that of public men generally i but tho desire to traduce him has only been increased by this consideration. He Ins, on all occasions, fearlessly exposed the corruption of those who so long ruled the State, thruugh whose instrumentality millions iron millions or hollaiis have been added to its debt and to the burthens of the tax-payers, without yielding substantial benefit. He has contrasted expenditures under W hig and Locofoco rule, and shown that under the latter they were swelled to such an extent as to compel Auditor ilroiigh to borrow money from year to year to pay tho interest on the alill accumulating debt. For such sins lie bus been hated with a hatred to express which language has been exhausted. Iu a recent number of the Statesman, whose editor is entirely unacquainted with Mr. Kelly and his pub lic career, but who aims to outstrip all his fellows in the work of bespattering the characters of men more honest than himself, a paragraph was put forth couched in language so much grosser and morn libellous than usual, as to elicit a notice from Mr. Kelley. j he fol lowing is a portion of the paragraph alluded to, with the note ot Air. Kelley Coll mbi s, Murrh'20, IrtKi. To C. C. tlazcwrtl, F.so., Fd. Ohio Statesman : Bih In V"iir tri-weekly pa iter of the I'th instant, in speaking of the Mux luw,' you say, among other tilings, "that a was ueviseu io wring irom mo naru canim-M of the people additional taxes " " to pay the interest on the state debt, which Qj" the ai thoii or THK TAX bill contributed largely to swell by plun- low. The word frttitdultnt is employed in tins sense, sometimes, and is thus to a certain extent justified by ussge ; but that it would, by a strict interpretation, ler legal! v or philoiogicatiy, Dear any sue it meaning, we are not prepared to say, at present." Now, there is Boinethiug exceedingly rich in this. The whole burthen of the charges brought against Mr. Kelley is, that he sacrificed the stocks of the State, to place money in his own pocket, as a stockholder in tho Life Insurance and Trust Company. Another charge, again and again reiterated, iu the columns of the Statesman itself, is that he received a bonus, which lie placed in his own pocket, for endorsing the credit of the State ! All these charges arc here taken back, unconditionally, und the Statesman says that it had no intention whatever to charge Mr. Kelley with seeking " to enrich himself," or to secure his own 11 personal gain." It would not, for a nio- incut, 11 impute personal corruption to him, because it has " no facts," to sustain such a charge ! "Honest confession," it is said, 11 is good for tho loul." If so, we hope the Statesman will derive some comfort fur its wounded spirits, in this instance. Af ter such acknowledgments, it could well ufl'urd to grow bold for a time, and inform Mr. Kelley, in conclusion, that it would not do, what no one expects or asks it to do I l'ut Master Silence to bed." The Revenue Law Abrond. We hive the best reiisuii for believing that a vast amount of labor and care were expended in framing the Revenue Law adopted by the lute Legislature, It bears on its fucu the evidence of this fact. It may prove defective in some of its features, for it would lie a circumstance unparalleled in the history of such laws, if it should be found to operate in all respects just ai could be desired. Whatever captious enemies nay say, it must be n source of gratification to those who adopted it, that their labors arc not only appreciated at home, but abroad. The lnw has attracted general attention and elicited remark, of a complimentary nature, iu several of the leading presses of other States. The Haiti mo re American precedes and closes a synopsis of its provisions, with the following re marks : Tim Rkvenie System in Ohio. The new revenue law passed at the late session of the Legislature of Ohio comprises the whole financial system of that State. And a well devsed system it is. Nothing could lie arranged on a more equitable plan ; nothing more simple iu structure, or better adapted lor efficient and harmonious operation. Wo may specify some of its main features. Such ore some of the outlines of the revenue system of Ohio. How admirably it is constructed ! I'eo. pie of Maryland behold with what simplicity and straightforward directness men of Ohio come up to their plighted obligations ! The whole world knows how promptly they have redeemed them. The only thing to be sctlh-d among them is" how shall we ol lot to each man his just share of this responsibility ot ( our State t Here seems to be a good plan for doing that und now, Mr. Auditor, you have only to tell us what we have to pay." Ohio pays in proportion to her population probably the largest taxes of any Statu in tho Union', yet stio is one of the most prosperous and nourishing. The Detroit Adrertiser, the leading Whig journal of Michigan, thus opens and closes a notice of its provisions : Ohio Tax System. The Legislature of Ohio, at its last session, entered into a general and thorough revision of its tux laws. Heretofore, in Ohio, as m the West generally, taxation has mainly fallen upon real estate. While the country was new, the system operated tolerably well, as the great bulk of nil prop, erty consisted of land and fixtures. But the progress of society his brought forth new interests, and additional subjects of taxation. The present law is de. signed to meet this change of circumstances. We have neither time nor spice to give a full or adequate view of the system. But we venture to suggest to Auditor General Bell, who has a good head for such investigations, to look over tin Ohio law. The time may cmne in the progress of wealth nnd popula tion when our mate may also require niriner legislation on the subject. The CoIosKiil Power of Englnnd. Sir Robert Peel tints concluded a speech that occu pied three hours in its delivery, just before the vote was taken which nllowcd the introduction of Ins bill for the reduction of duties : He entreated them to look at their physical advan tages ; at those nerves and sinews ot their manufactures, the stores of iron ami coal which abounds in their territory. Let them look also at their ncquired advantages. Why, Kngland has ten times the capital of any nation in the world ! He asked them to bear in mind t lint ninny countries an1 watching their decis ion. Sardinia had set the example ol a imerui I arm , Naples would shortly follow; he could tell them that m was already shaken ; and t ranee was desirous to follow the example which England was Belting. Nearly the whole speech was devoted to show the absolute necessity of a repeal of the duties on grain, &c, on account of the suite ring condition of a portion of their people, and the certainty that their sufferings would soon lie cn me insupportable. Our object, how ever, in quoting this paragraph, was merely to show the unltounded confidence Sr Robert reel has in the ability of their inanufucturers to compete with the world, under reduced duties. His reference to tho capital" of Kngland is, undoubtedly, correct. With her immense capital, if permitted a foothold in this country, under Mr. Walker's Tariff, she will starve out and crush many of our manufacturers, in defiance of all their efforts to the contrary. Her colossal manufacturing power and wealth will give her command of the markets of the world, if permitted access to them. HT The everlasting, wordy quibbler of the Cincinnati Herald, is again expatiating on the beauties of Sir Robert Peel s free-trade. He announces in Ilia papers of the ijilth nnd bl, tint manufactures of cotton and wool, arc not manufactures because they are partly mndt up! He makes a quotation from Sir Robert Peel's speech (his text-book, poorly studied at that) to show that he is for free-trade nnd makes no discriminations in behalf of British labor; and In! the very paragraph he quotes establishes the lact that he don discriminate ! It states that certain articles, of ordinary cotton manufacture, that have heretofore borne a duty of ten per cent, shall come in duty free ; while certain others, that huvo borne a duty of twenty per cent., iiistend of coming in free of duly, like those thus mentioned, shall bear a duty of (m per trnl. And this is free-trade, according to tbc Herald's definition of thr term. We advise the Herald to make sure that it understands what it is talking about, before it attempts to discuss the Tariff. Why docs not the Herald go into a discussion of tho merits of its darling proposition for the establishment of free-trade and direct taxation in this country. It is a favorite project with certiou South Carolina politi dt ring thr stuff through fraudulent sales of her storks," cians, and they will undoubtedly thankfully receive As the tiaravraph above quoted, unless true, as I know it not to be, contains a gross libel, I deem it a duly owing to myself and to the public, whose agent I hive been, to give you an opportunity promptly nnd publicly to retract tlie accusation, or, nt tho earliest period allowed by the practice of our courts, to attempt the truth of its proof before a jury of the country. With due resMi:t, ALFRED KELLY. This note called forth a four column article, in which t labored effort was made by, tlie editor, ( whose ignorance led him to confound facts, dates and everything else) to give a show of plausibility to some of the charges brought against Mr. Kelly, llnving thus, as lie si imposed, diawu attention from the humiliating confession he wns about to make, under mortal fear, ho took tho confessional and the following is the result: Having thus stated tho facts, we proceed to the charge of libel. Mr. Keli.ey's letter is not so explicit as we could have wished it to have been. It has been suggested to us, however, that he objects to the use of tlie word fraudulent,' us people might construe it to men n t h it he had been induced to make nn im proper sale of state stocks, in order lo enrich himself that, in short, He was imtucea to uci at ns icu, jrom a drttrtof urrtunuii vain. It this is really the fact, we have no hesitation in saying, that irr hud no intention of cAiirynig tiny turn crime uiuh Mr. Ariirjf, uecause ire Afire ho facts now in our possession to suntain such rh r ft. We do not know whether he mndc a single cent by the transaction, and nrcer intend d that our remarks should have any construction which would tin- putr firrMomil corruption to him. V e intended no more than this, ami our article cannot near any oilier construction, except by process which shall make nine. tenth of tho articles published by the entire press of the country, amenable to libel suits, That article par took of the usual sins of newspaper literature, in Ih-ing hastily and loosely written. The change of a word or two, would have made it unexceptionable in all respects, without in the least impairing its force. The writer of the article, had no infritrios) of charging Mr. Kri.i.kv with having perpetrated a fraud further thun as every agent is gudty of a Jrutidulrnt act, who, instructed to pursue a particular course, violates Ihe instructions of his principil, and pur.mcs a couric pre- any aid from this Liberty organ. If it must talk on the subject, why does it not discuss principles and not quibble about words ? Why does it not go to work nnd show the great blessings and benefits of the plan presented by its friend Sir Robert Walker ? Why does it 1 show in wh it respect frtt labor is to bo benefitted by the destruction of the protective principle? Givo us fuels und figures and org indents on these points. Lucofocoinm has failed to do so, and will gludly re ceive aid from one who has shown himself a faithful ally in the time of need. Falsk as Usu al. A few of the Auditors of the neighboring counties having been invited by the Audi tor of State, to assist him in making out the blank form fur the Assessors and others, to bo used under th new Revenue Law, the Matesman forthwith put forth I hi false and ridiculous assertion tint they had been convened to aid in fixing a construction up on the provisions of that lnw. This is in character with the assertions of otic whose position is so dubious as to render him alike an object of suspicion among men of nil parties. We advise him to define his own position on the currency and other questions, that he may see whether a fair construction upon his movements will leave him any claim to the character of an honest, principle-loving mnn. Ohio Ktnte Hoard of AKrtruHurn This body holds its first meeting, under tip) act of the late Legislature, in tins city, on Wednesday next, the 1st d ty of April. We understand that a circular has been issued to the members ol the Board, and that strong hopes are entertained of being able to com mence an efficient system of operations, that will exert a happy inllneticc on the Agricultural interests of the State. Such a consummation is much to be desired. Wu trust that the farmers of every section of Another Falsehood Nailed I An attempt wus made by the Statesman of Monday evening lo create tho impression (of course withal view to party and personal profit,) that the prices paid those e nploycd in this office, on the State work, are below a fair and liberal rate, nnd below what has been heretofore paid on tho same work, when in other hands. We shall not biuily words or epithets with the Statesman or others on this point. We say now, once for all, that the charge is utterly false, nnd that if the fact is not known to tho editor of the Statesman, before attempting to malign his neighbors, he should have taken the trouble to inform himself. A high-minded, honorable man would have taken such a course ; but such is his taste for defamation, he trans-greBseB all the rules of propriety and decency to grat- J ify it. Experience, it seems to us, should satisfy him 1 that it is neither profitable or expedient. j It is known lo all, here and elsewhere, that the pro-1 fits of the State work, under the urrungement made by the late Legislature, are "cut down very much below ! what they were before the oflioe of State Printer wns j repealed. The cost of bill printing wns reduced more than one half. Yet all those employed in this office, on the State Workt either by the piece or the week, have received the same tragrg paid by Mcdtrtjt while he waa doing the Stale Printing. i Thoso employed in this office, on the State work,1 several of whom are members of the Typographical Society, are satisfied with the compensation allowed, and are ready to attest that it is equal to that allowed by thoso who have previously executed the State Printing. One of those, thus employed, wus President of the Society until within a few days. Under such circumstances, we can well afford to laugh at the efforts of those who have essayed tit injure the credit of tlie establishment among the craft, in order to gratify a malignity that is only worthy of the contemptible creatures who have lent themselves to this work. The fi, Mowing statements, voluntarily made and pre- i sen ted for publication, by those engaged on the State work, iu this establishment, some of whom nre political opponents, will set the matter right before our friends, and render further remark unnecessary, TO THK 1H11LIC. CoLcnucs, March ii5, lHl(j. The undersigned, Journeymen Printers, employed in the office of Ihe Ohio State Journal, nnd engaged on the Stale Work, having seen in the Ohio Statesman of Monday, March 211, lHi, an editorial article, slating id substance, and intending to convey the idea, that some of the Journeymen engaged nn the State Work were receiving less than the regular prices, or the prices adopted by the Columbu: Typographical Society, deem it their duty to state, in justice to I hem- elves, and to the office, that the statement is false in very particular, nnd that all the Journeymen engag ed on the State Work have received the prices here tofore paid, being the prices udoptcd by the Columbus Typographical Society. It may bo proper tostnte that in the Journal office the past winter, the Journeymen working on the Bills were employed by the pi ret und made ten dollars per week Formerly they were employed htjthr icttkni The prices of the Society nre AH per week, or 27 cents per thousand ems, which prices each of us have received and are now receiving, J. DILLON, JOHN WHITE, J. R. ARMSTRONG, RALPH R. A.NDLRSON, A. Ii. LAI RKNH, WM. WASHBURN, OLO. WADSWORTII. O. H. P. GARRlia. The undersigned has been nnd now is employed at Press Work, in the Ohio State Journal othce, nnd luu always received the prices udopted by the Columbus typographical Society. BKNJAMIN WRIGHT. Lafayette Hoi sr., March IHi, Messrs. Scott & Co .Sir: In the Ohio Statesman of Monday, 1 perceive that you nre charged with reducing the wages of Ihe journeymen employed in your office, in the Slate Department, i deem it my duty to Slate that, ns I have been in your employ since some time previous lo the commencement nt tin1 Stale Printing, 1 nm satisfied every journeyman en gaged upon said work received, and is now receiving ft'.i per week, or 'J cents per thousand ems. I he prices ure fixed by the Typ'Ufrnphteal Society, of which l am a memuer. nespeciiiiny yours, ir., T. S. IIOSKINS. Messrs. Scott & Co. Having nlso been in your employ, since the commencement of the State Printing, and a memlier of the Typographical Society, I take occasion to express my concurrence in the above statement. A. S. GLF.SSNKR. The undersigned has no knowledge of Mr. Scott niplovinir, or offering loemplov Journeymen Printers on the State Work at prices less tlinu S I per week, or J7 rents per thousand ems, which 1 believe to be the prices adopted by the Columbus iyp"gnipincai hociety. w. r . M,tili, Foreman on State Work. tjiinrter JlnMer Genernl'n IteportWhere la tnu l ommiuee oi inquiry i Having our attention called to a very snug little trick perpetrated by General Sunterson, and worthy only of a disinterested locofuo, of the first water, we we were induced to lo k into tho R-pirt of lint offi- ier, (Quarter Master General) nude to the late L"gis- lature, in compliance with a call of that body. A few remarks will dcvclopc the trick and we slnll then be stow a few words on the R"p rt. It will be recollect- d that the late Legislature elected a new (Quarter Mister General, to occupy the place now tilled by Gen S tnders m, whose term expires on the 1st of April next. One would naturally supp ise that about this tin)!? he would b j cloiin up the bujineu of hit term, and would leave to his successor tho duty of drawing ami! for the present year. N it so, Inwever, thought Gen. S. lie hid been in the Inbit of drawing tira hundred and fifty dollars, for a trip to Washington and back a little oftrner than mice a year, during his term; and he concluded that the neat lil'le profit of one hun drrtland seecnty or eighty dollarston such atrip, would do much to cato his descent from station, and be quite as comfortable in his pocket a in tint of his success or ; and juit on the eve of his retirement, ho posted off to Washington, without authority from the Governor, to give orders for a new supply of anus, &o. From this trip he has juit returned, aw far if, he lias drawn ihe sum of tiro hundred and fifty ifaHars, having in ihe bargain a prospective office at the hands of Mr. Polk, to whom he undo a visit. This little sum was thus made to answer a double purpnc for the g illant Gen eral, while his successor is relieved of cue and trouble. In glancing over the report of the Quarter Master General, whose duties are etcecdin-tly onerous, we find that his aulary is tiro hundred dollars per annum. He Ins been in office three years, during which time he has managed to draw, for hts own services, almul Urtuty-onr hundred dollars! Together with tint from which he has just returned, he has made fire(') trips to Washington, to draw arnii, instead of Mrrr, which would correspond with the years of his term. For these five trips ho rlnrged nud Ins been paid the aum of TWKLVK HUNDRKI) AND FIFTY DDL-LARS! Tho curious reader nny wish In know how such a charge could be rendered for merely polling to through a term of kinb years! The whole expenses of the office for nine years under Gen. Niscwanger, were $10,083 25. Under Gen. Sanderson, for three yours, they exceed $,2lK, (live thousand two hundred,) an increase of more than one third ! CnucuseH-And Chuciib Dictntion. We hear it frequently asked by men of both parties, What has caused the present disruption of the (pre tended) " Democratic " party ? To our minds the cause is plain and easily to be understood : It is manifestly from a growing disgust at tho undisguised, shameless dictation, carried An through the instrumentality of Caucuses, got up and managed by self-constituted lenders. There is in this management no nttempt or pretence of cotisuttiiir the popular wilt, but a determination to control and direct that will, regardless of public sympathies or public interests. We need not go back far into the party history of the country to make ourselves understood. The conduct nnd result of the Baltimore Convention, at which Mr. Polk wns nominated for the presidency, is a case clenrly in point. With the man nominated at that Convention we have nothing to do ; it is only the man ner of his nomination to which we would allude. And even with this we do not as Whigs propose to find fault ; we leave that with his supporters ; they know best how far their wishes were eonsu'ted. But there is another feature in its proceedings to which we would more particularly call attention: we mean the attempt, by its action to draw into party politics a great national question, one that belongs purely to tho diplomacy of the country on which the question of war or peace depends and there, for the mere purposes of unscrupulous parly leaders, to commit the country before hand, blindly, without discussion, without negotia tion, to the fearful issue of war and its attendant curses. Tlie folly not to say criminal wickedness of such a course is now made apparent to all, by the embar rassed and hesitating action of Mr. Polk, and his administration. The Convention resolved Hint our claim t'i the whole of Oregon was undoubted. So said Mr. Polk, under the guiiltnce of this influence, iu his inaugural address. But no sooner did he find himself engaged in the diplomatic management of this ques tion, thin he found hiunelf obliged to offer a couipro. raise, of our "unquestionable" claim to the whole of Oregon, on the 411th degree ! C mid any thing more completely expose the wickedness of this species of dictation? A caucus determine that a particular question will be profitable for party success ; and forthwith the whole party is committed to its support, regardless of the right on the one hand, and of the consrynntrrs on the other. Now it is seen that the ud-miuistration must recede, or incur the fearful responsibility of a war. And it ought to recede, if it has taken ground Ihat cannot be maintained with honor and justice. Rut what say the Caucus dictators P Not an inch will they give, because whit? because they would lose the opportunity of rising on the ruin they would create, Ihe only chance which such men can ever have of unking themselves conspicuous, Tho people of the country sec the danger they have been in, and they sic the only clunco of escaping such evils in future if perch inue, the steady skdl and unflinching firmness of honest statesmen, of both pur' ties, shall succeed in saving the country from the p -ril which threatens her. They have had enough of caucus dictation on questions of this kind. There is another mitter of n comparatively local nature, which has aromed tho attention of thinking, considerate men, to this subject of Caucus dictation. Wo allude to tin; issues that have been forced upon the " Democratic " (if that can be called Democratic which ciuinates from a secret few) party, of this State. No one pretends, for a moment, tint the Convention which nominated Tod, on the 8th of January, re pre sen ted the views and feelings of the great body of the party that is now to be rallied to his support. We, as Whigs, would raise no question of this kind ; we can only meet the issues tendered, and cheerfully shall we do that, because we feel that we are on the side of justice and good policy. But the people the real Democrats of his own party have proclaimed aloud lint they have been deceived, defrauded by whom? Here comes up the same answer that is to he given on the Oregon question. The few have done it, at the ex-jcnse and in the name of the many. The people do not object lo Conventions they do not object to meetings for consult it'ioii: but they do ob ject to aictatum Irom sell-coustituted leaders. io mat ter what pirty pursues such a course no matter how plausible they tiny be at the commencement; frauds and corruption creep iu, nnd take the place of opent fair dealing. II ippily the Whig party have no such difficulties to overcome ; they have no such differences to heal. Hence, they stand erect before the country ; they openly proclaim their measures ; they select their men to carry out their principles, thus openly avowed ; ami they te:.ll succeed, because they dtsrrre success. We hive made tiiese rem irks in ni partisan spirit. They have a higher origin, and will therefore meet a resp uiso from candid, reflecting men of alt parties. Unless the affairs of thu country are rescued and that soon from the hands of empirics and demagogues, the country its df will be ruined sunk, as low iu the scale of nations, as the partisanship we have been describing is sunk, ill the estimation of all liighmiuded men and patriots. Kuropenn Interference on this Continent The rumored we might say threatened interference of the Great European Powers, tore-establish a Monarchy in Mexico, brings fresh to mind the attempt made by Mr. Adams and his Cabinet, in IHlft to draw closer the bonds of fraternal Union between this country and the South -American Republics. The Panama Mission was fostered with this desire, and its objects were well understood. On the part of the Southern Republics, it wns broadly proclaimed, that the Congress of Panama was designed to establish, on a more solid basis, the intimate relations which should exist between them all, individually and collectively, and that it might serve " as a council in great events, as a point of union in common danger." It will be remembered by those who have a recollection ns far back, that in the summer of lr-'.';l, the " Holy Alli ance," at the request of Spain, were colled upon to assist in subjugating what she was pleased to call her revolted colonies This announcement called forth the celebrated declaration of Mr. Monroe, in Decern-her of that year, to the effect, that the United States could not view wi'h indifference the hostile interposition of any Kuropenn power against the independence of ihe Southern Republics, but would consider such an attempt as dangerous to our peace and safety. The effect of this declaration will also be remember-ed thrrt im no F.Hrvpean interference. The South American Republics felt the force of our friendship, nud were gratef ul for it. They wished to draw closer the bonds of union, and our Government reciprocated shall bo the centre of a system which would constitute the rallying point of human freedom against all the dr.ipot 'mm of the Old World. Let us no longer watch the nod of any European politician. Let us become real and true Americans, and place ourselves at the head of the .line.riran System.1' Rut other counsels prevailed. And we have here a commentary iu the announcement to winch we have alluded, namely, tho threatened establishment of a Monarchy, where his councils would have perpetuated n free Republic ! Under present guidance, the future wears a gloomy aspect. We have passed the golden point, and have been catching at straws. It will be well if they be not transformed into vipers ! time ! at an expense to the State of fire hundred dol lars. Gen. N. was but a poor progressive, that's clear; for his successor deemed fire trips, at nn expense j of $1 necessary, in three yenra ! Now, nil this may look perfectly correct and proper to some ; but we imagine there an- some to whom it will not look quite so just; and our gallant friend will hardly es cape some ugly suspicions, even if he should get the command of one ot the new ntle regiments, about which Congress hits been talking. Wo shall see what Whig reform will do hen-. We find in the report of Quarter Master General Sanderson four other charges of fifty dollars each; which, with one made since, (ns we learn,) show the sum of lira hundred and fifty dollars paid the said Quarter Master himself, for distributing, exchanging, taking possession of, collecting nnd shipping public arms! This, it will be recollected, does not include freight, carriage, and such expense as attends the transportation of these arm. These are separate items. The question then arises, for whit were these the State will show that they feel in this matter, and sums pnid ? For what services wns the salary of fini are ready to second any move me nt designed for their bestowed on the Quarter Muster t He can find untuck benefit. (hargr$ mthe account of Orn. .istwofer, running Washington, ordering a quantity of arms, and return- that feeling, and wns disposed to avail itself of the ad- ing. It will take tho General to answer that question. 1 vantages uttered by ihe assembling of the Congress at A frugal merchant usually calculates to expend from ; Panama, by sending represoutativet. How this move-50 to 70 dollars in a trip east and back, including all ment was met, and by whom its objects were defeated, his expenios. Hut, then, it cannot be expected Ihat j we have heretofore described. Mr. Polk, and his pre-one who is travelling at the public expense, will do it sent Secretary of State, both being then in Congress, as cheaply as if he had to foot the bill himself. were conspicuous iu it. Curio-uty prompted us to look a little further into These events are now assuming a new interest. the matter, and we found tint Gen. NisrwANnEH,th j The announcement that France and England, with predecessor of Gen. S inr.nsoi, who was in otVke I the ronrHrrrnrr of Mexico, are about to erect a throne H'fir years, or three terms, had considered it neceasa-1 in the circle of Southern Republics, has a startling ry to make but (iro trips to Washington, during all that appearance. It establishes tho far seeing power of Htute I'riiuiiis; The Great Injunction Case. lull the teat when we have to apply to it. It is called The public printing for Congress and for the dine- nn office in the act, and as such, il ia made perpetual. rem oiaies nas ueen used, even since the auveni oi Jneksoniflin, ( wherever that party had the power,) for Mr. Adams and his advisers, (among tlie chief of whom was Mr. Clay,) and fixes the character of the factious opposition to the policy of his admiuistrutiou. These are reminiscences, the force of which should not be lost in determining the wisdom of the men who now swny the influences of this nation. And they may help the observing iu estimating the measures into which wu have beeu betrayed, within the last few years. In this connection we would call attention to the views entertained and expressed by Mr. Clay, in Congress, as far ba.'k as 1K.M. Mr. (.'lay had a prophetic vision; he looked far into the future. " What (said he, on the occasion to which we allude,) would I give, could we appreciate the advantages of pursuing the course I propose. It is in our power to create a tys-trm of which we shall be the rrntre, ami in which ull South America will art with us." " Imagine the vast Hiwer of the two continents, and the value of the intercourse between them, when we shall have a population of forty and they of seventy millions. In relation to South America, the people of the United Sutra will occupy thu same position as the people of New-Kngland do lo Ihe rest nf the United States." Wo Correspondence of the Ohio State Journal Wasiiinutok, March 2), 1846. Another week has been notched upon the calendar, of the " long session," and although the amount of ae-tunl legislation accomplished might have been comprised iu this last week, yet it is about the sixteenth of this session which, to judge of tho future by the past, will run into the dog-days, It is already getting to be too hot to talk with any sort of comfort of a war for Oregon: whether as a consequence or not, all the Senatorial speeches made of late are for compromise. Since my last, Messrs. Calhoun, Berrien, Archer and Nilcs have ranged themselves on this side. There no longer remains a doubt that any reasonable treaty upon this vexed question would be ratified by a two-thirds vote of the Senate, but there is some doubt about the course which the Executive will lake. Mr. Polk is certainly justifiable, in the position in which he is placed, for keeping a close mouth about tho matter ; but the position was assumed voluntarily on his part, and imposes no like obligation upon others. Accordingly the discussion upon Oregon is likely to cud somewhat differently from the manner in which it begun. At first the President's assertion of a "clear and unquestionable title," supported by irrefragable arguments " passed quite current, and very few qucs tioued its correctness ; but latterly it has been discovered tint this question, like almost all others, has two sides, and Ihat Great Britain has l some rights " in Oregon, which rights may as well be taken into account first us Inst. Mr. Polk has felt his way along in this matter as cnutiously as the elephant, who tries its strength before he trusts himself to the plunk. Atone moment he advances, and at the next withdraws now he thrusts his head out like a turtle, and now, as quickly jerks it back again. Martin Van Buren never understood non-committalism like this man. It is said that his last hue resembles the color in which Ilauiiegun 4k Co. first represented him, rather than that which Haywood afterwardsjminted. Whether he ia for 54, 40, or for 4',may be uncertain, but I think there is no doubt of his going for '44. A friend informs me that Mr. Webster will address the Senate next week, and will enter upon a detailed defence of the Washington (Ashburton) Treaty, which has been violently de- nounced in the course of the Oregon discussion, and cited as among the eases where England has over- ached us in diplomacy "cheated and laughed at us' was the Innguago used by Allen. The investigation into the chargo of corruption of the Senate ended, as all hereabouts knew it would, in a complete vindication of the Conscript Fathers. I expressed some regret, in my last letter, that they should have put themselves on trial ; but it was wise, per hips, in view of future contingencies. Tlie House were occupied up to yesterdny (when I I hey adjourned until Monday) with the River and Harbor Bill, which wns finally licked into a passable shape and went through with a majority of ten or elev en votes. One or two incidents occurred, while this measure was undergoing amendment, of some interest to your immediate readers. Mr. Schcnck had offered some proposition, und taken his seat. Shortly after, one of his colleagues, Mr. Fries, moved an amendment, I the substance of which (not having the paper by me tor reference) I give from memory 41 For the construction of Schcnck and Bebb's subterranean road in Ohio, for the transportation of their odoriforous friends from Kentucky into Candna $ ." Mr. Schenck's attention being momentarily withdrawn, the amendment was pnssed upon without notice, hut as soon as he asrertainded the drift of it, he rose and asked Mr. Fries what was his intention in thus dragging him (Mr. S.) personally before the House ? To this very proper inquiry Mr. Fries returned no answer. Mr. Schcnck then told him that "his conduct was un becoming a gentleman." Mr. Thurman, also of your delegation, interposed for the laudable purimsc of ex planation and harmony, as did also one or two other members, hut Mr. Fries maintained a dogged silence, wanting either the manliness or good sense In wipe oft Ihe stigma thus publicly fastened upon him. This wanton attack of Mr, rnes upon a colleague was viewed with general disgust, which was considerably heightened when Mr. Schcnck subsequently told the House that he (Mr. S.) had sought an introduction to Mr. Fries in the early part of the session for the pur pose of extending to his colleague such courtesies as an older member may always exercise towards a young er and a stranger in Washington ; and that nothing but mutual civilities had passed between litem. I apprehend that the real secret of Mr. Fries' conduct, if il is ever disclosed, will be found to lie in the fuel that Mr. Schcnck is a shining mark for the malevolence of somo ot the more rabid Locofocos, by whom Mr. Fries was act on to attack him. Although Mr. Schcnck is uniformly courteous in his bearing, and never goes aside from his p ith to single out individuals for assault, yet he understands so well how to be severe and gentlemanly at the name time that there is no one whose expositions nf Locntocoism are so much dreaded as those made by Mr. Schenck. Mr. 8. is justly regard ed, I think, as the ablest tactician and off hand debater in the House. Another incident connects itself with Mr. Sawyer (familiarly known by the soubriquet of Sausage Sawyer) who sets himself up as a strict constructionist. Mr. Delano moved, " for the improvement of Maumee Bay and river, below its rnpids, fill),- U00." Mr. Sawyer said " ho wanted the interference I of no man in his district the appropriation waa not wanted, and he would not vote for it." Tellers were called for on tho amendment, but no qunrein voted. Air. Scheuck insisted that there was a quoreni present, "he had observed several members that did not vote, and among them the representative from the Maumee distrcl." Mr. Sawyer said ho should not vote on the proposition. So his district will share the fate of thnt of Charleston S. C, for the harbor at which place a liberal appropriation had been reported, but was rejected by the vote of the S. C. delegation itself. Tim papers havo named Mr. Green how of Va.,as the See. of Legation under Mr. Saunders to Spain; but I am informed from a reliable source, that this nomination has not been made, and that Mr. Hamilton, the present worthy incumbent, will probably remain. Mr. Hamilton's experience will be necessary to Mr. Saunders. Mr. Greenhow waa the principal second in the duel between Ritchie and Pleasants, in which the latter was murdered : and this is the second Pleasants in whose death this same Greenhow has been instumen-tal. The suicide of Commodore Crane, in this city, creates much excitement. A man of sixty-four, with a sufficient fortune, a liberal salary, a kind wife and no ch'ldren, locks himself in his office nnd cuts his throat! When the door of his room was broken opeu, a ghast ly spectacle waa presented he waa found upon his knees, supported against the wall, and the floor of the room covered with blood. Such a cntnstrophe, at a period of life when the passions are supposed to have subsided, is among those inexplicable events of our being which recall tho truth that "wo nre fearfully and wonderfully made." The news by the Ilibernio possesses but little interest, except an confirming the probability that what Sir Robert Peel says, Parliament will do. Leopold de Meyer, the greatest performer on the pis no iu the world, is here exhibiting his skill. He got one dollar from me but won't get another. His skill is wonderful, and he extracts every thing but harmony from tin inlriiment. The farmers round about here are ploughing and seeding most industriously. J. B. From Texiu. lKTELi.ior.Ni-K riuiM tii k Ahuy or OrrirTio. An arrival at New Orleans on the 14th instant brings advices (mm Arnnsns May lo the 1 1 tit instant, and Irom Galveston to the I -'lb inst. The mnm body of (ten. Taylor's army had marched Inwards Rrnxos St. Jngo, and the Inst regiment, with Gen. Tnvlor and his stnff, waa to leave on the 1'ith instant. There were rumors that a large force of Alex-icNiis had been concentrated to oppose the advance of Gen. Taylor's force, and these produced considerable excitement. The United States troops wen in expectation uf t conflict with thu enemy. the support of a reckless partisan press. Millions of dollars have been squandered and filched from the National and State treasuries for that purpose. There has been some prominence given to the sub ject recently, by the action of the Legislatures of this Stale and New-York Tho evil has been effectually checked in these two leading States of the Union. ihe attempt to give the printing of Congress to tho lowest bidder at the present session, by which something liko a hundred thousand dollars would have been saved to the treasury, was defeated by the votes of a drilled majority. All these reforms have been carried out by Whig votes. In this State, a silly attempt was made by tho former monopolist of constructive charges and " cassie quires " to arrest the Legislation of last year, by suing out an injunction, from the Supreme Court, against the executors of the law in other words, the partisan feelings of Judges were appealed to for a remedy against a law, where no remedy was within the reach of the Court. The Legislature had repealed a general statute creating an office, substituting another mode of doing the duties imposed upon the otlicer created. The Court, by their injunction against the execution of the new law, in effect said, it was inexpedient for tho Legislature to repeal the old law ice therefore forbid its execution until they hare time to consider the matter : Or, ( what is probably nearer thu truth,) until a new Legislature is chosen, to see if a majority may not be composed of our po litical Inends, and bo repeat the inexpedient law! Well, the people refused to second the motion be fore the Court. In despite of the commands of Court and regardless of pathetic appeals from party leaders, a Whig Legislature was returned and they saw fit in tho face of law and justice ( if th-f action of the Court is to be taken as a guide ) to re-enact the former law. nnd put the public printing out to the lowest bidder. Very illegal very un Democratic ! But what became of the injunction ? O, the Coun sel for the honest applicant refused to argue it, after being repeatedly reminded in open Court of their duty. And the juuges u, they ordered it back (the Lord may know where) where it will never be heard of ngain. They read the argument of Mr. Ewi.io, Coun- el for the defendants, and concluded it was best not to touch it ! We have received bo many enquiries for this argu ment within a few weeks (a limited number only having been printed for the use of the Court and the Bar) that we have concluded publish it entire. We will only say it is worth the reading. Court In Hunk, January Term, 1NI0. Samuel Medary, rs. Samuel Galloway t Joseph Whitehill and John Woods. Bill or Injckctiok. IUsebved fbom the Couhtv Or FtUNKLIft. Argument of Titos. Firing for Defendants. The Bill charges, that the Complainant wns, on the 14th day of December, IM4M, elected Stnte Printer, for three years, from and after the 1st of July, 1H4I1, pursuant to the provisions of an " act to create permanently tho office of State Printer," passed Mnrch 14th, IHI17. That he took the oath of office gnve bond, and entered upon the duties of the office. That he provi- ueo uuiiseii wmi inc iiinienais necessary tnenaule him to comply wun nis contract; mat he at all times discharged his duties faithfully ; that he has not been removed from his office in the mode pointed out hy law, and that he looks upon his engagement, by whatsoever nmne it may be called, as iu effect, a contrnct. 'Ihat on the jtn oi March, iMii, the Legislature pnssed an act entitled an net to provideWbrtlie Stnte Printing," which requires, thnt the State Printing should be taken away from the Complainant, and (riv en out by the Defendants, or nny two of them, upon a contract, to commence on the 1st of July,l.". Avers iimi no wji ib uuvoiiiiuiKPMiu a ii ii toiq, so raras me same violates the contract of complainant. That de fendants give nut in speeches that they intend to do aa requireu oy snia act, anu that they have actually advertised for proposals to engage this printing, in obedience to said void net of March lath, 1H4, and thus deprive the complainant of the benefit of his contract. States that he is remediless m the premises, by the strict rules of common law, and canobtnin redress only in a court of equity. Prays process of suhpamn, and that the defendants tie enjoined from further proceedings under said act, and that they he compelled to submit to and conform to the terms nf the law under which the complainant has been executing the public printing ; and that, on the final hearing, the complainant may be protected in his rights acquired and held under the constitution and laws of this State. The advertisement published by the defendants, is set out in the bill, and proposes for such printing as is necessary in the ordinary course of enacting and publishing laws and resolutions that is, the mnehmery for carry- tig on the ordinary business of Legislate I he injunction prayed for, was granted on the circuit, and the matter now comes up on a motion to dissolve.This injunction is in terms against mere executive officers, forbidding them to perform a duty required of them by an act of the Legislature, for that body, and in aid of the discharge of their appropriate functions. No decree, of any kind, can be fcad against these nominal defendants. Thry deprived the complainant of no rights, actual or pretended, and they cannot restore him to any which have been taken from him. This if the first difficulty encountered in the case ; and it ii much like, in principle, to a hill filed against a Sheriff, to enjoin him from executing final process, without ranking the plaintiff in the suit, at law, a party. Indeed, it ia not ao regular or well conceived as that would lie, for the ptamt'ff, in the case put, could not carry into effect Ins judgment, if ihe officer of the Court in which it wns rendered should bo forbidden to execute the process ; and the complainant would obtain, in effect, the relief sought for. But in thia case none but the executive officers, first named by the Legislature, are enjoined. They may not do the act without disobeying the injunction ( but other officers may be appointed by the same body to do the same act, or the Legislature may do it directly hy itself, and thia injunction does not reach them. Therefore this injunction is a vain thing unless it extend, in effect, to the Legislature, a well aa to the officers or agents appointed by the Legislature to carry out their behests. It would certainly be idle lo enjoin the mode of doing an act, without enjoining the net itself; or unless Ihe injunction upon the mode extended to, and prevented the act. It would bo wholly useless to the complainant unless it be effectual to this sxtent and even further. It must not only prohibit the Legislature from gelling oiiis pnnieu oy any one except the complainant, but il must compel them to employ Aim to do the printing. It would avail him nothing to prevent the Secretary of Stale from publishing proposals, when he might be a bidder, and at tho same time suffer a Committee of the two Houses to employ another printer get their bills printed, and exclude him from the business and the profits attending it. I take it, therefore, that the bill and ihe injunction were intended to operate noon the Legislature. That the injunc tion is a dead letter except so fur as it effects that body, nnd if not obligatory against them, it ought at once to be dissolved. The injunction, so far aa its direct action ia concerned, merely prohibits certain otlirera, appointed by law to contract for the State printing, from obeying the lnw snd making the contract. It merely deprives the Legislature of tho mode which they had selected, as the most cheap and convenient, of providing themselves with the meaia of exercising their appropriate functions Now, 1 have shown thai the end and pur-pose of the injunction oould not have been this for if so, it were an act of simple mischief, not nrodticimr. or tending to produce, any good whatsoever. It were wiuiout enu or oinect. This, of course, could not have been tho purpose of the cotnplninnnt who asked, and much less of the court which granted, the injunction. Tho object, then, of Ihe injunction was to secure to the complainant the rights which he claimed, pending this suit, its effect, if it have any, must bo to prohibit the Legislature from printing, or procuring to be printed, by any person except the complainant, or from procuring to bo lenlrn, any 4i7, report, rrsolu. tton or statute, which is usually printed for their use in the course of legislation, or in making public the laws, until final hearing nf this cause ; or at lenst until this motion could bo henrd in this court, short of this it is a vain thing, and to this I think the power of the court doea not extend. If" the "nffrs of State Prin. irr," which the Legislature of IK17-8 made "ptrpttu. ,'' be an " i0irf,'rthero is no doubt that it could be nt once abolished by the same power that rivaled it ; offices, in theory, at lenst, are created for the benefit of t he people not of the individuals who are selected to till them; and the legislature is Ihe sole judge, subject only to Constitutional restrictions, whether it is for the public interest that an office should be rrm-ted, continued or abolithrd. In this matter the court has no power to inter fen-. Individual hardship may urise under the exercise of tins power, but the court cannot then-fore enjoin its exercise, Those who take fdliee do it with a knowledge, actual or imputed, of the tenure by which they hold, and generally consult their own interest in accepting or declining it. If however, a aelf.aacriticing patriot devotes himself to tho service of his country, forgetful of his own emolument, and at last the office is abolished, by which ho suffers injury and privation, some mode of com pensation, oy pension or otherwise, perhaps, ought to he proviiti'il for Imti. Hut whether this ii. or ii not uiii a r-RM', it for tho Lvgiiiltilurp, nd not for tho Die otlicer i. Fleeted hv the two Hntisei on ioint bal lot ; an oath of office ii prescribed and taken ; the officer is reiuired to give bond for tho faithful discharge of the duties of his office ; and a Tacancy occurring in the recess, is tilled bv Hie (invcrnnr. It may bo questioned whether the clerk of the House or of the Senate is an offictr, or his situntion an office, but there con, I think, be none as to the State Printer, under the act of March 14th, 117. But it the " ohrr of State Printer " be a mere eon- tract, and not an office, it still does not at all make a case in whien a court of equity oould take jurisdiction u MiuiviuuiuH were parties, or give it power, in true cose, to act upon the Legislature. Take the case of an individual, as nearly analagoua as possible to this. A. emiilovn B. to render hiln some specified servico about his shop, or in Ins house, by contract, for a year, and is to pay him a stipulated compensation. A., for some reason of his own, dismisses him, and is about to employ another to do the sumo work, and 11. hies his bill, to compel A. to restore him to his contract, and enjoin A. from employing any one but himself to perform it. Would any lawyer, for a moment suppose thnt such an injunction could be allowed, or the bill sustained Suppose B. to have done his duty in all things, and that A. dii-missed him wantonly, and without cause, from his servico; B. has relief at law, but not in chancery. B. can recover damages for the breach of contract, if he performed faithfully, on his part, but he cannot compel A . to take him back into his house or shop, and endure him there, if, from whatever cause, he have become an annoyance ; nor is it necessary, ih defence lo nucn urn 111 ciiauccry, ior A. lo show that B. was dishonest, and continued always to get more wages than he earned, or that he was, in other respects, base fellow slanderous and abusive towards his employer and other inmates of his shop or household. If, by any inadvertance, an injunction, in such case, should have been allowed, a motion to dissolve, would be sufficient, at once, to dispose of it. If such a bill in chancery would not lie an individual being tho defendant, and if, nevertheless, it be sustained in this oase, it must be became the Lrgiila. lure ii virtually the drfrntlatU. I can perceive the pro. cess of reasoning which has led counsel to the conclusion that it can bo sustained for that reason. Tho complainant, in the case made in tho bill, would havo had a plain, complete, and adequato remedy at law, against an individual ; he lias none such against Ihu Legislature. Assumpsit does not lie against that body, or the sovereignty which they represent. The proposition I suppose, is, that you cannot bring suit against them, therefore you uioy in;oin them, not directly, for thai, I suppose, would not be contended, but so restrain, and fetter, and annoy them in the performance of their functions, that they will be compelled to i'o the will of a complainant in chancery, or cease to exist and act as a deliberative body. The bill, then, is tiled on this assumption, that the court, on the rcp-' nation of individuals, may in effect injnin the Legislature from employing A to print their bills, B to act as clerk of the Senate, (J of the House, D to act as sergeant-at-arms, and K as door-keeper, because complainants in chancery claim to have made l contract wilh a former Lcgitlalvre, to act in those several capacities for tliit, and they ask the court to say to that body, by process of injunction, (not against the Legislature, but against whomsoever they may employ,) A shall not print your bills and laws ; B and C shall not keep your journals j and D and E shall not build vour fires, and keep order in your lobbies and galleries. You shall have none of these things done, unless you suffer the complainants in chancery to do them for you. 11 .ne conn nau me power and the will do all this, they might compel tho Legislature to obey, and employ the individuals who chose to press themselves into their service, or cease to act for want of llin nlivsi. cal means to perform their functions. On this hypoth esis, the court could at pleasure put an end to lcgisls- louui.. i ma was a very ainerent power Irom that which belongs to the court, of refusing to enforce a "v,.iimr u is unconstitutional. It is within the power, and it ia the dutv of tho court, to protect the citiien from any illegal or opores. sive act, against his person or properly, dono or at- leuip.eu ciiner oy tne Legislature or tlie Executive i as, if a man be illegally imprisoned by either, the court may discharge linn on a writ of habeas corpus ; or, it his properly be seired or transferred, by holding the law or order to that effect unconstitutional and void, and the otlicer who shall have executed it a trespasser ; but the court cannot injoin the Legislature Irom making a contract to print their laws, because a complainant avert that they have agreed wilh him to print them. Nor could the court injoin the Governor from marching an army bv land to the lake shore lo repel invasion, on a bill filed by the owner of a line nt boata, averring that he had a contract to take them by canal. The last may be thought an extreme case-but if the power exist in the one case, it doea in tho other. So, too, if a commissary were about to eon-tract for auppliet necessary for an army, and bill should be filed by a complainant alledging that ho had contracted to furnish the supplies, and was ready to perforin his contract, the court might and if they have the power, the bill being tworn lo, they mnst injoin the commissary from furnishing food for the army from any oilier quarter until the case could be heard and determined, on a motion lo dissolve. 1 he boundaries which separate the nnwers several. ly delegated to the three greatdepartmenlsof our rov- ernment, are not so definitely marked hy tlie general designation in our Constitution, as to be obvious at once, even to the legal mind ; hence it is nol at all sur. prising, that even the court the least likely of all lo err in this respect should, in an incidental mailer liko this, pass the limits assigned in it by that instrument. ii siicu an error have been fallen iiilo, it it important that it should be at onco corrected ; and that the court, which ia emphatically the conservative department of our government, whose province it is ti keen the ml,. er department within their proper spheres, and to pro. iiiiiii Tensilon me rignis oi eacn by the other, and of the citiien from both, should itself abide not ft.r a moment in the exercise of a prohibited or doubtful iowri. As to the abstract equity of the case the iusticeof continuing the office, thai the plaintiff might continue to fill it, or if it be a contract and not an office, of suffering him lo go on wilh, and carry out hit eon. tract these are matters for the Legislature to deter. mine, upon a luu view oi all the tacts. 11 ia certain, ly expedient, so far as convenience will permit, that each successive legislative body should select for it-self the men lo perform such incidental services aa are neoestary in the course of legislation ; and it it an abuse unless necessity n-onire it for one Iriris. lalure to contract for those services, with favorites of their own, and fasten lliem. for Vesrs it. srlvsnea tin. on their succcessors, to whom they may perhapa be any thing but acceptable It would ao alrike ua at once, ii a Legislature should provide by contract, three years in advance, clerks, sergeant.at-arma, and door-keeper, for aucceeding Legialalurea. The case of a printer is equally flagrant, and even worse, if it or uuue merely to laslen a political tavonte of the Ixidy selecting him, upon the public treasury, and on future Igsiluluret, without any public necessity, or any regard to the public interest. And even if this were in very deed a contract, and if it were necrt-sarv, for the cheap and proper execution of the publio printing, that it should extend, as in Ibis case, ycart in advance, and even if it were made hy both parlin, in good faith, without any ainiater pnrioae, and there were no actual plunder, or attempt at plunder, in carrying it into execution, it does not nrceemrtfy follow that a future Legislature would be bound, in propriety or morals, to adhere to aurh arrangement, and retain the person so employed as a memlier of their hnue. hold and a sharer of llieir labors , for it might possibly happen, that he would be justly detestable lo majoii-ty uf that body : a common libeller, perhapa ; furnish, ed with means by his very employment to traduce anil vilhfy them. And if that should be ao, they ought not lo retain him no more than ought the master of a house lo retain a like obnoxioua and pestilent fellow in hia domestio employment, within hit familv and about hia household, because he had a contract with him to do ao. In both cases compensation should be made ; but in both oasea tlie nuisancs ought to bo removed. But these, I have said, are questions fr the Legislature alone to determine. J'ary may find, pern. ps, Iraud and combination, a disregard for the publio in-teresls.and a regard only to party, and selfish views, blending with tho election of, or contract with the in- ........... , .no uiey may rigntlultr act upon their eon- victmn ol these things, into Ihe foundationa uf which conn to iiioire. I Then, it this an offi ce Certainly it to answers to this oourl cannot examine. And if, for purposes surli as theao, the office were given or the contract made, it the whole transaction were a fraud npon the publio treasury, and an imposition on a future Legislature, thai Legislature is not bound, in justice or morals, to connive at the fraud, aiihuiit to tlie imposition, nor itidemiiily the party who has failed to reap all the profits which he expected to derive Irnin them. T. KWI.(l,f lt,f,n,Unl.. Roanrnr. Wo royret to learn that the room of Joseph U. (iilibons, Esq., at Ihe Kenvon House Mt. V ornnn, wss entered a few nights since, and tiO abstracted from his pocket lionk. A negro waa arrested on suspicion, but at Ilia latest information, nothing had been elicited leading tu the reoovery of the mo. ney. Xtinrenlle Untitle. We hope the villain who liaalliua plundered a worthy memlier of the typographical cralt, may be brought to condign punishment. .Mr. O. was engaged in tint ollieo during the past winter, and it about to com nienoe the practice of law. The Buffalo Courier thinks thai the damage done at that city hy the freshet isoverraled when il is staled at l(HI,0(HI. llnnksjiow,,,,, ln,i, w, rtlfri Mf Hint amount, and that a large portion of the loss will lull upon the Insurance (Joinpaniea. The stceiulKwt Rochester was insured only a law hours before the disaster occurred.

vLY OHIO STATE JO U it. VOLUME XXXVI. COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1846. NUMBER 32. PUBLISH!,!) EVEKY WEDNESDAY MOKMNU. I cisely opposite to that which he wns instructed to fol- BY CHARLES SCOTT & CO. Office iu the Journal liuildinir. souihDiut corner of High street and Su'ur alley . TKHMS; Tn h ce Dollars p:b aswum, which may bediHrlinrund by the puynieut of Two Dou.Alts in ailvniieo, nnd free of juMt.'iytt, or of per rentane to ALfPiitu or Cnlleetors. The Journal in also published iluily dnrinir the session of the l.RHiHhture, and thrice a wtink tint remainder of the ) uur for $j f and three limus a weult, yenriy, for t. rniliRSDAY EVENING, IWAItCH 20, lMO Whiff City Nominutioiis. The Whigs of the City met in the severul wards on Tuesday evening lost, pursuant to notice, and made their nominations for Council men and Assessors. The meetings were numerously attended, showing that a considerable amount of interest is felt. The follow ing are the nominations : First War d. Robert ftiordnn, John Miller, Richard Jonei. Assessor Joel Searls. Second Ward. For Council men, Joseph Ilidgway, jr., Benjamin Bluke, E. N. Hlocuin. Assessor 8. T. Heffher. Third Ward." Henry Butler, Clark Higgins, Win. Armstrong.-Assessor Adams Stewart. Fourth Ward. Win, Harrison, James Brydeii, Tiioi. F. Jones. Assessor Horton Howard. Fifth Ward. Jerrod Shed, Adam Waggoner, Fraukenberff. JlMsetsorV t'tah Stotts. Tlie Whigs of the Township did not nominate a candidate for Assessor. The following delegates were appointed to the Convention that meets this evening: N. Merion, George Fraukeuherg, Alfred Kelly and Robert Neil. As the delegates of the various wards have not all been handed in, we have not attempted to give a list of them. letter of Abbott I.nu'reucc. Wo commence to-day, one of the admirable letters of Abbott Lawju-.sce, Ksq., to Hon. W. C. Rivks, of Va.( on the subject or ihe Tariff. Wo need not tell the people of Ihe. West who Abbot Lawrence is. Extensively engaged for many years, in manufacturing, and holding at this time nn interest in some of the eastern establishments, he is able to upeuk of the Tariff from a personal knowledge of its operalions. He is known, throughout the eastern and middle Stale, as a man of extensive acquirements nnd unblemished reputation. His opinions are the result of experience and close observation, and as such will go as tar as those of any other man on the subject of the Tariff. Hut be deals with fait, facts collected from ten thousand sources, with unfailing accuracy. His facts none have attempted to gainsay. They speak for themselves, nnd they speak trumpet-tongued. It is to them In appeals as a friend of protection, and to them he point for a triumphant vindication of tin wisdom and beneficence of the protective policy of the country. Like an avalanche, they bear down all before them, leaving not an inch of ground, as a foothold for the enemies American Labor and enterprise We are sure that no one can arise from their perusal, without be in j wiser and better prepared to perform the duties of a good citizen. His letters should he read and preserved by all. We shall finish the one in hand in our next, and give another as soon us this is fairly digested. 10 The following notice of proceedings in tho new County of Athlaiid, erected by the late Leg mint lire, is from the Wooater Democrat: (The county of Ashland contains a Locofoco majority, it is said, of five or six hundred.) AtMii.ANii CorsTr Nominations. A meeting of Delegates assembled at Jeromeville, nn Tuesday lust, tor the purpose of nominating candidates for county othres. I he following are I lie selections. Commisnionrrshmuih Thomas, Orantre township; E. 8. liibbert, Huuover township ; Abtier Christ Rug-; gles township. j Treasurer d. W. t rie, Montgomery township. Sheriff J.imes Doty, Miflln township. Itetordtr Ann I. Reed, l'erry township. Snrreyor Keen, jr., Jaekson township. Coroner Jacob Miller, l'erry township. .I ii ill tor Hiirh Burns, Milton township. V. Attorney Donalds' m, Hanover township. The above ore nil Locofucos but two, and are in favor of locating Ihe county seat at Ashland. On the same diy a mass meeting was held at Hays-ville, at whieh a ticket was put in nomination favorable to that place ; but we have not been able to obtain the names. Another Libeller "Hrontrht tip Standing!1 And not exactly landing either ; but, to carry out the nautical figure, " thrown on his beam end." In order to render obnoxious, if possible, the acts of the Legislature during the past two years, in the preparation of which Mr. Kei.i.ky has performed quite an active part, much to the interest of the Stale the Lo-cofoco press of the Slate has, on all occasions, assailed with the deepest malignity, all his public acts, and endeavored to produce the impression that lie has been im. pel led, in all his labors, by selfish and corrupt motives. His public career is less vulnerable, perhaps, than that of public men generally i but tho desire to traduce him has only been increased by this consideration. He Ins, on all occasions, fearlessly exposed the corruption of those who so long ruled the State, thruugh whose instrumentality millions iron millions or hollaiis have been added to its debt and to the burthens of the tax-payers, without yielding substantial benefit. He has contrasted expenditures under W hig and Locofoco rule, and shown that under the latter they were swelled to such an extent as to compel Auditor ilroiigh to borrow money from year to year to pay tho interest on the alill accumulating debt. For such sins lie bus been hated with a hatred to express which language has been exhausted. Iu a recent number of the Statesman, whose editor is entirely unacquainted with Mr. Kelly and his pub lic career, but who aims to outstrip all his fellows in the work of bespattering the characters of men more honest than himself, a paragraph was put forth couched in language so much grosser and morn libellous than usual, as to elicit a notice from Mr. Kelley. j he fol lowing is a portion of the paragraph alluded to, with the note ot Air. Kelley Coll mbi s, Murrh'20, IrtKi. To C. C. tlazcwrtl, F.so., Fd. Ohio Statesman : Bih In V"iir tri-weekly pa iter of the I'th instant, in speaking of the Mux luw,' you say, among other tilings, "that a was ueviseu io wring irom mo naru canim-M of the people additional taxes " " to pay the interest on the state debt, which Qj" the ai thoii or THK TAX bill contributed largely to swell by plun- low. The word frttitdultnt is employed in tins sense, sometimes, and is thus to a certain extent justified by ussge ; but that it would, by a strict interpretation, ler legal! v or philoiogicatiy, Dear any sue it meaning, we are not prepared to say, at present." Now, there is Boinethiug exceedingly rich in this. The whole burthen of the charges brought against Mr. Kelley is, that he sacrificed the stocks of the State, to place money in his own pocket, as a stockholder in tho Life Insurance and Trust Company. Another charge, again and again reiterated, iu the columns of the Statesman itself, is that he received a bonus, which lie placed in his own pocket, for endorsing the credit of the State ! All these charges arc here taken back, unconditionally, und the Statesman says that it had no intention whatever to charge Mr. Kelley with seeking " to enrich himself," or to secure his own 11 personal gain." It would not, for a nio- incut, 11 impute personal corruption to him, because it has " no facts," to sustain such a charge ! "Honest confession," it is said, 11 is good for tho loul." If so, we hope the Statesman will derive some comfort fur its wounded spirits, in this instance. Af ter such acknowledgments, it could well ufl'urd to grow bold for a time, and inform Mr. Kelley, in conclusion, that it would not do, what no one expects or asks it to do I l'ut Master Silence to bed." The Revenue Law Abrond. We hive the best reiisuii for believing that a vast amount of labor and care were expended in framing the Revenue Law adopted by the lute Legislature, It bears on its fucu the evidence of this fact. It may prove defective in some of its features, for it would lie a circumstance unparalleled in the history of such laws, if it should be found to operate in all respects just ai could be desired. Whatever captious enemies nay say, it must be n source of gratification to those who adopted it, that their labors arc not only appreciated at home, but abroad. The lnw has attracted general attention and elicited remark, of a complimentary nature, iu several of the leading presses of other States. The Haiti mo re American precedes and closes a synopsis of its provisions, with the following re marks : Tim Rkvenie System in Ohio. The new revenue law passed at the late session of the Legislature of Ohio comprises the whole financial system of that State. And a well devsed system it is. Nothing could lie arranged on a more equitable plan ; nothing more simple iu structure, or better adapted lor efficient and harmonious operation. Wo may specify some of its main features. Such ore some of the outlines of the revenue system of Ohio. How admirably it is constructed ! I'eo. pie of Maryland behold with what simplicity and straightforward directness men of Ohio come up to their plighted obligations ! The whole world knows how promptly they have redeemed them. The only thing to be sctlh-d among them is" how shall we ol lot to each man his just share of this responsibility ot ( our State t Here seems to be a good plan for doing that und now, Mr. Auditor, you have only to tell us what we have to pay." Ohio pays in proportion to her population probably the largest taxes of any Statu in tho Union', yet stio is one of the most prosperous and nourishing. The Detroit Adrertiser, the leading Whig journal of Michigan, thus opens and closes a notice of its provisions : Ohio Tax System. The Legislature of Ohio, at its last session, entered into a general and thorough revision of its tux laws. Heretofore, in Ohio, as m the West generally, taxation has mainly fallen upon real estate. While the country was new, the system operated tolerably well, as the great bulk of nil prop, erty consisted of land and fixtures. But the progress of society his brought forth new interests, and additional subjects of taxation. The present law is de. signed to meet this change of circumstances. We have neither time nor spice to give a full or adequate view of the system. But we venture to suggest to Auditor General Bell, who has a good head for such investigations, to look over tin Ohio law. The time may cmne in the progress of wealth nnd popula tion when our mate may also require niriner legislation on the subject. The CoIosKiil Power of Englnnd. Sir Robert Peel tints concluded a speech that occu pied three hours in its delivery, just before the vote was taken which nllowcd the introduction of Ins bill for the reduction of duties : He entreated them to look at their physical advan tages ; at those nerves and sinews ot their manufactures, the stores of iron ami coal which abounds in their territory. Let them look also at their ncquired advantages. Why, Kngland has ten times the capital of any nation in the world ! He asked them to bear in mind t lint ninny countries an1 watching their decis ion. Sardinia had set the example ol a imerui I arm , Naples would shortly follow; he could tell them that m was already shaken ; and t ranee was desirous to follow the example which England was Belting. Nearly the whole speech was devoted to show the absolute necessity of a repeal of the duties on grain, &c, on account of the suite ring condition of a portion of their people, and the certainty that their sufferings would soon lie cn me insupportable. Our object, how ever, in quoting this paragraph, was merely to show the unltounded confidence Sr Robert reel has in the ability of their inanufucturers to compete with the world, under reduced duties. His reference to tho capital" of Kngland is, undoubtedly, correct. With her immense capital, if permitted a foothold in this country, under Mr. Walker's Tariff, she will starve out and crush many of our manufacturers, in defiance of all their efforts to the contrary. Her colossal manufacturing power and wealth will give her command of the markets of the world, if permitted access to them. HT The everlasting, wordy quibbler of the Cincinnati Herald, is again expatiating on the beauties of Sir Robert Peel s free-trade. He announces in Ilia papers of the ijilth nnd bl, tint manufactures of cotton and wool, arc not manufactures because they are partly mndt up! He makes a quotation from Sir Robert Peel's speech (his text-book, poorly studied at that) to show that he is for free-trade nnd makes no discriminations in behalf of British labor; and In! the very paragraph he quotes establishes the lact that he don discriminate ! It states that certain articles, of ordinary cotton manufacture, that have heretofore borne a duty of ten per cent, shall come in duty free ; while certain others, that huvo borne a duty of twenty per cent., iiistend of coming in free of duly, like those thus mentioned, shall bear a duty of (m per trnl. And this is free-trade, according to tbc Herald's definition of thr term. We advise the Herald to make sure that it understands what it is talking about, before it attempts to discuss the Tariff. Why docs not the Herald go into a discussion of tho merits of its darling proposition for the establishment of free-trade and direct taxation in this country. It is a favorite project with certiou South Carolina politi dt ring thr stuff through fraudulent sales of her storks," cians, and they will undoubtedly thankfully receive As the tiaravraph above quoted, unless true, as I know it not to be, contains a gross libel, I deem it a duly owing to myself and to the public, whose agent I hive been, to give you an opportunity promptly nnd publicly to retract tlie accusation, or, nt tho earliest period allowed by the practice of our courts, to attempt the truth of its proof before a jury of the country. With due resMi:t, ALFRED KELLY. This note called forth a four column article, in which t labored effort was made by, tlie editor, ( whose ignorance led him to confound facts, dates and everything else) to give a show of plausibility to some of the charges brought against Mr. Kelly, llnving thus, as lie si imposed, diawu attention from the humiliating confession he wns about to make, under mortal fear, ho took tho confessional and the following is the result: Having thus stated tho facts, we proceed to the charge of libel. Mr. Keli.ey's letter is not so explicit as we could have wished it to have been. It has been suggested to us, however, that he objects to the use of tlie word fraudulent,' us people might construe it to men n t h it he had been induced to make nn im proper sale of state stocks, in order lo enrich himself that, in short, He was imtucea to uci at ns icu, jrom a drttrtof urrtunuii vain. It this is really the fact, we have no hesitation in saying, that irr hud no intention of cAiirynig tiny turn crime uiuh Mr. Ariirjf, uecause ire Afire ho facts now in our possession to suntain such rh r ft. We do not know whether he mndc a single cent by the transaction, and nrcer intend d that our remarks should have any construction which would tin- putr firrMomil corruption to him. V e intended no more than this, ami our article cannot near any oilier construction, except by process which shall make nine. tenth of tho articles published by the entire press of the country, amenable to libel suits, That article par took of the usual sins of newspaper literature, in Ih-ing hastily and loosely written. The change of a word or two, would have made it unexceptionable in all respects, without in the least impairing its force. The writer of the article, had no infritrios) of charging Mr. Kri.i.kv with having perpetrated a fraud further thun as every agent is gudty of a Jrutidulrnt act, who, instructed to pursue a particular course, violates Ihe instructions of his principil, and pur.mcs a couric pre- any aid from this Liberty organ. If it must talk on the subject, why does it not discuss principles and not quibble about words ? Why does it not go to work nnd show the great blessings and benefits of the plan presented by its friend Sir Robert Walker ? Why does it 1 show in wh it respect frtt labor is to bo benefitted by the destruction of the protective principle? Givo us fuels und figures and org indents on these points. Lucofocoinm has failed to do so, and will gludly re ceive aid from one who has shown himself a faithful ally in the time of need. Falsk as Usu al. A few of the Auditors of the neighboring counties having been invited by the Audi tor of State, to assist him in making out the blank form fur the Assessors and others, to bo used under th new Revenue Law, the Matesman forthwith put forth I hi false and ridiculous assertion tint they had been convened to aid in fixing a construction up on the provisions of that lnw. This is in character with the assertions of otic whose position is so dubious as to render him alike an object of suspicion among men of nil parties. We advise him to define his own position on the currency and other questions, that he may see whether a fair construction upon his movements will leave him any claim to the character of an honest, principle-loving mnn. Ohio Ktnte Hoard of AKrtruHurn This body holds its first meeting, under tip) act of the late Legislature, in tins city, on Wednesday next, the 1st d ty of April. We understand that a circular has been issued to the members ol the Board, and that strong hopes are entertained of being able to com mence an efficient system of operations, that will exert a happy inllneticc on the Agricultural interests of the State. Such a consummation is much to be desired. Wu trust that the farmers of every section of Another Falsehood Nailed I An attempt wus made by the Statesman of Monday evening lo create tho impression (of course withal view to party and personal profit,) that the prices paid those e nploycd in this office, on the State work, are below a fair and liberal rate, nnd below what has been heretofore paid on tho same work, when in other hands. We shall not biuily words or epithets with the Statesman or others on this point. We say now, once for all, that the charge is utterly false, nnd that if the fact is not known to tho editor of the Statesman, before attempting to malign his neighbors, he should have taken the trouble to inform himself. A high-minded, honorable man would have taken such a course ; but such is his taste for defamation, he trans-greBseB all the rules of propriety and decency to grat- J ify it. Experience, it seems to us, should satisfy him 1 that it is neither profitable or expedient. j It is known lo all, here and elsewhere, that the pro-1 fits of the State work, under the urrungement made by the late Legislature, are "cut down very much below ! what they were before the oflioe of State Printer wns j repealed. The cost of bill printing wns reduced more than one half. Yet all those employed in this office, on the State Workt either by the piece or the week, have received the same tragrg paid by Mcdtrtjt while he waa doing the Stale Printing. i Thoso employed in this office, on the State work,1 several of whom are members of the Typographical Society, are satisfied with the compensation allowed, and are ready to attest that it is equal to that allowed by thoso who have previously executed the State Printing. One of those, thus employed, wus President of the Society until within a few days. Under such circumstances, we can well afford to laugh at the efforts of those who have essayed tit injure the credit of tlie establishment among the craft, in order to gratify a malignity that is only worthy of the contemptible creatures who have lent themselves to this work. The fi, Mowing statements, voluntarily made and pre- i sen ted for publication, by those engaged on the State work, iu this establishment, some of whom nre political opponents, will set the matter right before our friends, and render further remark unnecessary, TO THK 1H11LIC. CoLcnucs, March ii5, lHl(j. The undersigned, Journeymen Printers, employed in the office of Ihe Ohio State Journal, nnd engaged on the Stale Work, having seen in the Ohio Statesman of Monday, March 211, lHi, an editorial article, slating id substance, and intending to convey the idea, that some of the Journeymen engaged nn the State Work were receiving less than the regular prices, or the prices adopted by the Columbu: Typographical Society, deem it their duty to state, in justice to I hem- elves, and to the office, that the statement is false in very particular, nnd that all the Journeymen engag ed on the State Work have received the prices here tofore paid, being the prices udoptcd by the Columbus Typographical Society. It may bo proper tostnte that in the Journal office the past winter, the Journeymen working on the Bills were employed by the pi ret und made ten dollars per week Formerly they were employed htjthr icttkni The prices of the Society nre AH per week, or 27 cents per thousand ems, which prices each of us have received and are now receiving, J. DILLON, JOHN WHITE, J. R. ARMSTRONG, RALPH R. A.NDLRSON, A. Ii. LAI RKNH, WM. WASHBURN, OLO. WADSWORTII. O. H. P. GARRlia. The undersigned has been nnd now is employed at Press Work, in the Ohio State Journal othce, nnd luu always received the prices udopted by the Columbus typographical Society. BKNJAMIN WRIGHT. Lafayette Hoi sr., March IHi, Messrs. Scott & Co .Sir: In the Ohio Statesman of Monday, 1 perceive that you nre charged with reducing the wages of Ihe journeymen employed in your office, in the Slate Department, i deem it my duty to Slate that, ns I have been in your employ since some time previous lo the commencement nt tin1 Stale Printing, 1 nm satisfied every journeyman en gaged upon said work received, and is now receiving ft'.i per week, or 'J cents per thousand ems. I he prices ure fixed by the Typ'Ufrnphteal Society, of which l am a memuer. nespeciiiiny yours, ir., T. S. IIOSKINS. Messrs. Scott & Co. Having nlso been in your employ, since the commencement of the State Printing, and a memlier of the Typographical Society, I take occasion to express my concurrence in the above statement. A. S. GLF.SSNKR. The undersigned has no knowledge of Mr. Scott niplovinir, or offering loemplov Journeymen Printers on the State Work at prices less tlinu S I per week, or J7 rents per thousand ems, which 1 believe to be the prices adopted by the Columbus iyp"gnipincai hociety. w. r . M,tili, Foreman on State Work. tjiinrter JlnMer Genernl'n IteportWhere la tnu l ommiuee oi inquiry i Having our attention called to a very snug little trick perpetrated by General Sunterson, and worthy only of a disinterested locofuo, of the first water, we we were induced to lo k into tho R-pirt of lint offi- ier, (Quarter Master General) nude to the late L"gis- lature, in compliance with a call of that body. A few remarks will dcvclopc the trick and we slnll then be stow a few words on the R"p rt. It will be recollect- d that the late Legislature elected a new (Quarter Mister General, to occupy the place now tilled by Gen S tnders m, whose term expires on the 1st of April next. One would naturally supp ise that about this tin)!? he would b j cloiin up the bujineu of hit term, and would leave to his successor tho duty of drawing ami! for the present year. N it so, Inwever, thought Gen. S. lie hid been in the Inbit of drawing tira hundred and fifty dollars, for a trip to Washington and back a little oftrner than mice a year, during his term; and he concluded that the neat lil'le profit of one hun drrtland seecnty or eighty dollarston such atrip, would do much to cato his descent from station, and be quite as comfortable in his pocket a in tint of his success or ; and juit on the eve of his retirement, ho posted off to Washington, without authority from the Governor, to give orders for a new supply of anus, &o. From this trip he has juit returned, aw far if, he lias drawn ihe sum of tiro hundred and fifty ifaHars, having in ihe bargain a prospective office at the hands of Mr. Polk, to whom he undo a visit. This little sum was thus made to answer a double purpnc for the g illant Gen eral, while his successor is relieved of cue and trouble. In glancing over the report of the Quarter Master General, whose duties are etcecdin-tly onerous, we find that his aulary is tiro hundred dollars per annum. He Ins been in office three years, during which time he has managed to draw, for hts own services, almul Urtuty-onr hundred dollars! Together with tint from which he has just returned, he has made fire(') trips to Washington, to draw arnii, instead of Mrrr, which would correspond with the years of his term. For these five trips ho rlnrged nud Ins been paid the aum of TWKLVK HUNDRKI) AND FIFTY DDL-LARS! Tho curious reader nny wish In know how such a charge could be rendered for merely polling to through a term of kinb years! The whole expenses of the office for nine years under Gen. Niscwanger, were $10,083 25. Under Gen. Sanderson, for three yours, they exceed $,2lK, (live thousand two hundred,) an increase of more than one third ! CnucuseH-And Chuciib Dictntion. We hear it frequently asked by men of both parties, What has caused the present disruption of the (pre tended) " Democratic " party ? To our minds the cause is plain and easily to be understood : It is manifestly from a growing disgust at tho undisguised, shameless dictation, carried An through the instrumentality of Caucuses, got up and managed by self-constituted lenders. There is in this management no nttempt or pretence of cotisuttiiir the popular wilt, but a determination to control and direct that will, regardless of public sympathies or public interests. We need not go back far into the party history of the country to make ourselves understood. The conduct nnd result of the Baltimore Convention, at which Mr. Polk wns nominated for the presidency, is a case clenrly in point. With the man nominated at that Convention we have nothing to do ; it is only the man ner of his nomination to which we would allude. And even with this we do not as Whigs propose to find fault ; we leave that with his supporters ; they know best how far their wishes were eonsu'ted. But there is another feature in its proceedings to which we would more particularly call attention: we mean the attempt, by its action to draw into party politics a great national question, one that belongs purely to tho diplomacy of the country on which the question of war or peace depends and there, for the mere purposes of unscrupulous parly leaders, to commit the country before hand, blindly, without discussion, without negotia tion, to the fearful issue of war and its attendant curses. Tlie folly not to say criminal wickedness of such a course is now made apparent to all, by the embar rassed and hesitating action of Mr. Polk, and his administration. The Convention resolved Hint our claim t'i the whole of Oregon was undoubted. So said Mr. Polk, under the guiiltnce of this influence, iu his inaugural address. But no sooner did he find himself engaged in the diplomatic management of this ques tion, thin he found hiunelf obliged to offer a couipro. raise, of our "unquestionable" claim to the whole of Oregon, on the 411th degree ! C mid any thing more completely expose the wickedness of this species of dictation? A caucus determine that a particular question will be profitable for party success ; and forthwith the whole party is committed to its support, regardless of the right on the one hand, and of the consrynntrrs on the other. Now it is seen that the ud-miuistration must recede, or incur the fearful responsibility of a war. And it ought to recede, if it has taken ground Ihat cannot be maintained with honor and justice. Rut what say the Caucus dictators P Not an inch will they give, because whit? because they would lose the opportunity of rising on the ruin they would create, Ihe only chance which such men can ever have of unking themselves conspicuous, Tho people of the country sec the danger they have been in, and they sic the only clunco of escaping such evils in future if perch inue, the steady skdl and unflinching firmness of honest statesmen, of both pur' ties, shall succeed in saving the country from the p -ril which threatens her. They have had enough of caucus dictation on questions of this kind. There is another mitter of n comparatively local nature, which has aromed tho attention of thinking, considerate men, to this subject of Caucus dictation. Wo allude to tin; issues that have been forced upon the " Democratic " (if that can be called Democratic which ciuinates from a secret few) party, of this State. No one pretends, for a moment, tint the Convention which nominated Tod, on the 8th of January, re pre sen ted the views and feelings of the great body of the party that is now to be rallied to his support. We, as Whigs, would raise no question of this kind ; we can only meet the issues tendered, and cheerfully shall we do that, because we feel that we are on the side of justice and good policy. But the people the real Democrats of his own party have proclaimed aloud lint they have been deceived, defrauded by whom? Here comes up the same answer that is to he given on the Oregon question. The few have done it, at the ex-jcnse and in the name of the many. The people do not object lo Conventions they do not object to meetings for consult it'ioii: but they do ob ject to aictatum Irom sell-coustituted leaders. io mat ter what pirty pursues such a course no matter how plausible they tiny be at the commencement; frauds and corruption creep iu, nnd take the place of opent fair dealing. II ippily the Whig party have no such difficulties to overcome ; they have no such differences to heal. Hence, they stand erect before the country ; they openly proclaim their measures ; they select their men to carry out their principles, thus openly avowed ; ami they te:.ll succeed, because they dtsrrre success. We hive made tiiese rem irks in ni partisan spirit. They have a higher origin, and will therefore meet a resp uiso from candid, reflecting men of alt parties. Unless the affairs of thu country are rescued and that soon from the hands of empirics and demagogues, the country its df will be ruined sunk, as low iu the scale of nations, as the partisanship we have been describing is sunk, ill the estimation of all liighmiuded men and patriots. Kuropenn Interference on this Continent The rumored we might say threatened interference of the Great European Powers, tore-establish a Monarchy in Mexico, brings fresh to mind the attempt made by Mr. Adams and his Cabinet, in IHlft to draw closer the bonds of fraternal Union between this country and the South -American Republics. The Panama Mission was fostered with this desire, and its objects were well understood. On the part of the Southern Republics, it wns broadly proclaimed, that the Congress of Panama was designed to establish, on a more solid basis, the intimate relations which should exist between them all, individually and collectively, and that it might serve " as a council in great events, as a point of union in common danger." It will be remembered by those who have a recollection ns far back, that in the summer of lr-'.';l, the " Holy Alli ance," at the request of Spain, were colled upon to assist in subjugating what she was pleased to call her revolted colonies This announcement called forth the celebrated declaration of Mr. Monroe, in Decern-her of that year, to the effect, that the United States could not view wi'h indifference the hostile interposition of any Kuropenn power against the independence of ihe Southern Republics, but would consider such an attempt as dangerous to our peace and safety. The effect of this declaration will also be remember-ed thrrt im no F.Hrvpean interference. The South American Republics felt the force of our friendship, nud were gratef ul for it. They wished to draw closer the bonds of union, and our Government reciprocated shall bo the centre of a system which would constitute the rallying point of human freedom against all the dr.ipot 'mm of the Old World. Let us no longer watch the nod of any European politician. Let us become real and true Americans, and place ourselves at the head of the .line.riran System.1' Rut other counsels prevailed. And we have here a commentary iu the announcement to winch we have alluded, namely, tho threatened establishment of a Monarchy, where his councils would have perpetuated n free Republic ! Under present guidance, the future wears a gloomy aspect. We have passed the golden point, and have been catching at straws. It will be well if they be not transformed into vipers ! time ! at an expense to the State of fire hundred dol lars. Gen. N. was but a poor progressive, that's clear; for his successor deemed fire trips, at nn expense j of $1 necessary, in three yenra ! Now, nil this may look perfectly correct and proper to some ; but we imagine there an- some to whom it will not look quite so just; and our gallant friend will hardly es cape some ugly suspicions, even if he should get the command of one ot the new ntle regiments, about which Congress hits been talking. Wo shall see what Whig reform will do hen-. We find in the report of Quarter Master General Sanderson four other charges of fifty dollars each; which, with one made since, (ns we learn,) show the sum of lira hundred and fifty dollars paid the said Quarter Master himself, for distributing, exchanging, taking possession of, collecting nnd shipping public arms! This, it will be recollected, does not include freight, carriage, and such expense as attends the transportation of these arm. These are separate items. The question then arises, for whit were these the State will show that they feel in this matter, and sums pnid ? For what services wns the salary of fini are ready to second any move me nt designed for their bestowed on the Quarter Muster t He can find untuck benefit. (hargr$ mthe account of Orn. .istwofer, running Washington, ordering a quantity of arms, and return- that feeling, and wns disposed to avail itself of the ad- ing. It will take tho General to answer that question. 1 vantages uttered by ihe assembling of the Congress at A frugal merchant usually calculates to expend from ; Panama, by sending represoutativet. How this move-50 to 70 dollars in a trip east and back, including all ment was met, and by whom its objects were defeated, his expenios. Hut, then, it cannot be expected Ihat j we have heretofore described. Mr. Polk, and his pre-one who is travelling at the public expense, will do it sent Secretary of State, both being then in Congress, as cheaply as if he had to foot the bill himself. were conspicuous iu it. Curio-uty prompted us to look a little further into These events are now assuming a new interest. the matter, and we found tint Gen. NisrwANnEH,th j The announcement that France and England, with predecessor of Gen. S inr.nsoi, who was in otVke I the ronrHrrrnrr of Mexico, are about to erect a throne H'fir years, or three terms, had considered it neceasa-1 in the circle of Southern Republics, has a startling ry to make but (iro trips to Washington, during all that appearance. It establishes tho far seeing power of Htute I'riiuiiis; The Great Injunction Case. lull the teat when we have to apply to it. It is called The public printing for Congress and for the dine- nn office in the act, and as such, il ia made perpetual. rem oiaies nas ueen used, even since the auveni oi Jneksoniflin, ( wherever that party had the power,) for Mr. Adams and his advisers, (among tlie chief of whom was Mr. Clay,) and fixes the character of the factious opposition to the policy of his admiuistrutiou. These are reminiscences, the force of which should not be lost in determining the wisdom of the men who now swny the influences of this nation. And they may help the observing iu estimating the measures into which wu have beeu betrayed, within the last few years. In this connection we would call attention to the views entertained and expressed by Mr. Clay, in Congress, as far ba.'k as 1K.M. Mr. (.'lay had a prophetic vision; he looked far into the future. " What (said he, on the occasion to which we allude,) would I give, could we appreciate the advantages of pursuing the course I propose. It is in our power to create a tys-trm of which we shall be the rrntre, ami in which ull South America will art with us." " Imagine the vast Hiwer of the two continents, and the value of the intercourse between them, when we shall have a population of forty and they of seventy millions. In relation to South America, the people of the United Sutra will occupy thu same position as the people of New-Kngland do lo Ihe rest nf the United States." Wo Correspondence of the Ohio State Journal Wasiiinutok, March 2), 1846. Another week has been notched upon the calendar, of the " long session," and although the amount of ae-tunl legislation accomplished might have been comprised iu this last week, yet it is about the sixteenth of this session which, to judge of tho future by the past, will run into the dog-days, It is already getting to be too hot to talk with any sort of comfort of a war for Oregon: whether as a consequence or not, all the Senatorial speeches made of late are for compromise. Since my last, Messrs. Calhoun, Berrien, Archer and Nilcs have ranged themselves on this side. There no longer remains a doubt that any reasonable treaty upon this vexed question would be ratified by a two-thirds vote of the Senate, but there is some doubt about the course which the Executive will lake. Mr. Polk is certainly justifiable, in the position in which he is placed, for keeping a close mouth about tho matter ; but the position was assumed voluntarily on his part, and imposes no like obligation upon others. Accordingly the discussion upon Oregon is likely to cud somewhat differently from the manner in which it begun. At first the President's assertion of a "clear and unquestionable title," supported by irrefragable arguments " passed quite current, and very few qucs tioued its correctness ; but latterly it has been discovered tint this question, like almost all others, has two sides, and Ihat Great Britain has l some rights " in Oregon, which rights may as well be taken into account first us Inst. Mr. Polk has felt his way along in this matter as cnutiously as the elephant, who tries its strength before he trusts himself to the plunk. Atone moment he advances, and at the next withdraws now he thrusts his head out like a turtle, and now, as quickly jerks it back again. Martin Van Buren never understood non-committalism like this man. It is said that his last hue resembles the color in which Ilauiiegun 4k Co. first represented him, rather than that which Haywood afterwardsjminted. Whether he ia for 54, 40, or for 4',may be uncertain, but I think there is no doubt of his going for '44. A friend informs me that Mr. Webster will address the Senate next week, and will enter upon a detailed defence of the Washington (Ashburton) Treaty, which has been violently de- nounced in the course of the Oregon discussion, and cited as among the eases where England has over- ached us in diplomacy "cheated and laughed at us' was the Innguago used by Allen. The investigation into the chargo of corruption of the Senate ended, as all hereabouts knew it would, in a complete vindication of the Conscript Fathers. I expressed some regret, in my last letter, that they should have put themselves on trial ; but it was wise, per hips, in view of future contingencies. Tlie House were occupied up to yesterdny (when I I hey adjourned until Monday) with the River and Harbor Bill, which wns finally licked into a passable shape and went through with a majority of ten or elev en votes. One or two incidents occurred, while this measure was undergoing amendment, of some interest to your immediate readers. Mr. Schcnck had offered some proposition, und taken his seat. Shortly after, one of his colleagues, Mr. Fries, moved an amendment, I the substance of which (not having the paper by me tor reference) I give from memory 41 For the construction of Schcnck and Bebb's subterranean road in Ohio, for the transportation of their odoriforous friends from Kentucky into Candna $ ." Mr. Schenck's attention being momentarily withdrawn, the amendment was pnssed upon without notice, hut as soon as he asrertainded the drift of it, he rose and asked Mr. Fries what was his intention in thus dragging him (Mr. S.) personally before the House ? To this very proper inquiry Mr. Fries returned no answer. Mr. Schcnck then told him that "his conduct was un becoming a gentleman." Mr. Thurman, also of your delegation, interposed for the laudable purimsc of ex planation and harmony, as did also one or two other members, hut Mr. Fries maintained a dogged silence, wanting either the manliness or good sense In wipe oft Ihe stigma thus publicly fastened upon him. This wanton attack of Mr, rnes upon a colleague was viewed with general disgust, which was considerably heightened when Mr. Schcnck subsequently told the House that he (Mr. S.) had sought an introduction to Mr. Fries in the early part of the session for the pur pose of extending to his colleague such courtesies as an older member may always exercise towards a young er and a stranger in Washington ; and that nothing but mutual civilities had passed between litem. I apprehend that the real secret of Mr. Fries' conduct, if il is ever disclosed, will be found to lie in the fuel that Mr. Schcnck is a shining mark for the malevolence of somo ot the more rabid Locofocos, by whom Mr. Fries was act on to attack him. Although Mr. Schcnck is uniformly courteous in his bearing, and never goes aside from his p ith to single out individuals for assault, yet he understands so well how to be severe and gentlemanly at the name time that there is no one whose expositions nf Locntocoism are so much dreaded as those made by Mr. Schenck. Mr. 8. is justly regard ed, I think, as the ablest tactician and off hand debater in the House. Another incident connects itself with Mr. Sawyer (familiarly known by the soubriquet of Sausage Sawyer) who sets himself up as a strict constructionist. Mr. Delano moved, " for the improvement of Maumee Bay and river, below its rnpids, fill),- U00." Mr. Sawyer said " ho wanted the interference I of no man in his district the appropriation waa not wanted, and he would not vote for it." Tellers were called for on tho amendment, but no qunrein voted. Air. Scheuck insisted that there was a quoreni present, "he had observed several members that did not vote, and among them the representative from the Maumee distrcl." Mr. Sawyer said ho should not vote on the proposition. So his district will share the fate of thnt of Charleston S. C, for the harbor at which place a liberal appropriation had been reported, but was rejected by the vote of the S. C. delegation itself. Tim papers havo named Mr. Green how of Va.,as the See. of Legation under Mr. Saunders to Spain; but I am informed from a reliable source, that this nomination has not been made, and that Mr. Hamilton, the present worthy incumbent, will probably remain. Mr. Hamilton's experience will be necessary to Mr. Saunders. Mr. Greenhow waa the principal second in the duel between Ritchie and Pleasants, in which the latter was murdered : and this is the second Pleasants in whose death this same Greenhow has been instumen-tal. The suicide of Commodore Crane, in this city, creates much excitement. A man of sixty-four, with a sufficient fortune, a liberal salary, a kind wife and no ch'ldren, locks himself in his office nnd cuts his throat! When the door of his room was broken opeu, a ghast ly spectacle waa presented he waa found upon his knees, supported against the wall, and the floor of the room covered with blood. Such a cntnstrophe, at a period of life when the passions are supposed to have subsided, is among those inexplicable events of our being which recall tho truth that "wo nre fearfully and wonderfully made." The news by the Ilibernio possesses but little interest, except an confirming the probability that what Sir Robert Peel says, Parliament will do. Leopold de Meyer, the greatest performer on the pis no iu the world, is here exhibiting his skill. He got one dollar from me but won't get another. His skill is wonderful, and he extracts every thing but harmony from tin inlriiment. The farmers round about here are ploughing and seeding most industriously. J. B. From Texiu. lKTELi.ior.Ni-K riuiM tii k Ahuy or OrrirTio. An arrival at New Orleans on the 14th instant brings advices (mm Arnnsns May lo the 1 1 tit instant, and Irom Galveston to the I -'lb inst. The mnm body of (ten. Taylor's army had marched Inwards Rrnxos St. Jngo, and the Inst regiment, with Gen. Tnvlor and his stnff, waa to leave on the 1'ith instant. There were rumors that a large force of Alex-icNiis had been concentrated to oppose the advance of Gen. Taylor's force, and these produced considerable excitement. The United States troops wen in expectation uf t conflict with thu enemy. the support of a reckless partisan press. Millions of dollars have been squandered and filched from the National and State treasuries for that purpose. There has been some prominence given to the sub ject recently, by the action of the Legislatures of this Stale and New-York Tho evil has been effectually checked in these two leading States of the Union. ihe attempt to give the printing of Congress to tho lowest bidder at the present session, by which something liko a hundred thousand dollars would have been saved to the treasury, was defeated by the votes of a drilled majority. All these reforms have been carried out by Whig votes. In this State, a silly attempt was made by tho former monopolist of constructive charges and " cassie quires " to arrest the Legislation of last year, by suing out an injunction, from the Supreme Court, against the executors of the law in other words, the partisan feelings of Judges were appealed to for a remedy against a law, where no remedy was within the reach of the Court. The Legislature had repealed a general statute creating an office, substituting another mode of doing the duties imposed upon the otlicer created. The Court, by their injunction against the execution of the new law, in effect said, it was inexpedient for tho Legislature to repeal the old law ice therefore forbid its execution until they hare time to consider the matter : Or, ( what is probably nearer thu truth,) until a new Legislature is chosen, to see if a majority may not be composed of our po litical Inends, and bo repeat the inexpedient law! Well, the people refused to second the motion be fore the Court. In despite of the commands of Court and regardless of pathetic appeals from party leaders, a Whig Legislature was returned and they saw fit in tho face of law and justice ( if th-f action of the Court is to be taken as a guide ) to re-enact the former law. nnd put the public printing out to the lowest bidder. Very illegal very un Democratic ! But what became of the injunction ? O, the Coun sel for the honest applicant refused to argue it, after being repeatedly reminded in open Court of their duty. And the juuges u, they ordered it back (the Lord may know where) where it will never be heard of ngain. They read the argument of Mr. Ewi.io, Coun- el for the defendants, and concluded it was best not to touch it ! We have received bo many enquiries for this argu ment within a few weeks (a limited number only having been printed for the use of the Court and the Bar) that we have concluded publish it entire. We will only say it is worth the reading. Court In Hunk, January Term, 1NI0. Samuel Medary, rs. Samuel Galloway t Joseph Whitehill and John Woods. Bill or Injckctiok. IUsebved fbom the Couhtv Or FtUNKLIft. Argument of Titos. Firing for Defendants. The Bill charges, that the Complainant wns, on the 14th day of December, IM4M, elected Stnte Printer, for three years, from and after the 1st of July, 1H4I1, pursuant to the provisions of an " act to create permanently tho office of State Printer," passed Mnrch 14th, IHI17. That he took the oath of office gnve bond, and entered upon the duties of the office. That he provi- ueo uuiiseii wmi inc iiinienais necessary tnenaule him to comply wun nis contract; mat he at all times discharged his duties faithfully ; that he has not been removed from his office in the mode pointed out hy law, and that he looks upon his engagement, by whatsoever nmne it may be called, as iu effect, a contrnct. 'Ihat on the jtn oi March, iMii, the Legislature pnssed an act entitled an net to provideWbrtlie Stnte Printing," which requires, thnt the State Printing should be taken away from the Complainant, and (riv en out by the Defendants, or nny two of them, upon a contract, to commence on the 1st of July,l.". Avers iimi no wji ib uuvoiiiiuiKPMiu a ii ii toiq, so raras me same violates the contract of complainant. That de fendants give nut in speeches that they intend to do aa requireu oy snia act, anu that they have actually advertised for proposals to engage this printing, in obedience to said void net of March lath, 1H4, and thus deprive the complainant of the benefit of his contract. States that he is remediless m the premises, by the strict rules of common law, and canobtnin redress only in a court of equity. Prays process of suhpamn, and that the defendants tie enjoined from further proceedings under said act, and that they he compelled to submit to and conform to the terms nf the law under which the complainant has been executing the public printing ; and that, on the final hearing, the complainant may be protected in his rights acquired and held under the constitution and laws of this State. The advertisement published by the defendants, is set out in the bill, and proposes for such printing as is necessary in the ordinary course of enacting and publishing laws and resolutions that is, the mnehmery for carry- tig on the ordinary business of Legislate I he injunction prayed for, was granted on the circuit, and the matter now comes up on a motion to dissolve.This injunction is in terms against mere executive officers, forbidding them to perform a duty required of them by an act of the Legislature, for that body, and in aid of the discharge of their appropriate functions. No decree, of any kind, can be fcad against these nominal defendants. Thry deprived the complainant of no rights, actual or pretended, and they cannot restore him to any which have been taken from him. This if the first difficulty encountered in the case ; and it ii much like, in principle, to a hill filed against a Sheriff, to enjoin him from executing final process, without ranking the plaintiff in the suit, at law, a party. Indeed, it ia not ao regular or well conceived as that would lie, for the ptamt'ff, in the case put, could not carry into effect Ins judgment, if ihe officer of the Court in which it wns rendered should bo forbidden to execute the process ; and the complainant would obtain, in effect, the relief sought for. But in thia case none but the executive officers, first named by the Legislature, are enjoined. They may not do the act without disobeying the injunction ( but other officers may be appointed by the same body to do the same act, or the Legislature may do it directly hy itself, and thia injunction does not reach them. Therefore this injunction is a vain thing unless it extend, in effect, to the Legislature, a well aa to the officers or agents appointed by the Legislature to carry out their behests. It would certainly be idle lo enjoin the mode of doing an act, without enjoining the net itself; or unless Ihe injunction upon the mode extended to, and prevented the act. It would bo wholly useless to the complainant unless it be effectual to this sxtent and even further. It must not only prohibit the Legislature from gelling oiiis pnnieu oy any one except the complainant, but il must compel them to employ Aim to do the printing. It would avail him nothing to prevent the Secretary of Stale from publishing proposals, when he might be a bidder, and at tho same time suffer a Committee of the two Houses to employ another printer get their bills printed, and exclude him from the business and the profits attending it. I take it, therefore, that the bill and ihe injunction were intended to operate noon the Legislature. That the injunc tion is a dead letter except so fur as it effects that body, nnd if not obligatory against them, it ought at once to be dissolved. The injunction, so far aa its direct action ia concerned, merely prohibits certain otlirera, appointed by law to contract for the State printing, from obeying the lnw snd making the contract. It merely deprives the Legislature of tho mode which they had selected, as the most cheap and convenient, of providing themselves with the meaia of exercising their appropriate functions Now, 1 have shown thai the end and pur-pose of the injunction oould not have been this for if so, it were an act of simple mischief, not nrodticimr. or tending to produce, any good whatsoever. It were wiuiout enu or oinect. This, of course, could not have been tho purpose of the cotnplninnnt who asked, and much less of the court which granted, the injunction. Tho object, then, of Ihe injunction was to secure to the complainant the rights which he claimed, pending this suit, its effect, if it have any, must bo to prohibit the Legislature from printing, or procuring to be printed, by any person except the complainant, or from procuring to bo lenlrn, any 4i7, report, rrsolu. tton or statute, which is usually printed for their use in the course of legislation, or in making public the laws, until final hearing nf this cause ; or at lenst until this motion could bo henrd in this court, short of this it is a vain thing, and to this I think the power of the court doea not extend. If" the "nffrs of State Prin. irr," which the Legislature of IK17-8 made "ptrpttu. ,'' be an " i0irf,'rthero is no doubt that it could be nt once abolished by the same power that rivaled it ; offices, in theory, at lenst, are created for the benefit of t he people not of the individuals who are selected to till them; and the legislature is Ihe sole judge, subject only to Constitutional restrictions, whether it is for the public interest that an office should be rrm-ted, continued or abolithrd. In this matter the court has no power to inter fen-. Individual hardship may urise under the exercise of tins power, but the court cannot then-fore enjoin its exercise, Those who take fdliee do it with a knowledge, actual or imputed, of the tenure by which they hold, and generally consult their own interest in accepting or declining it. If however, a aelf.aacriticing patriot devotes himself to tho service of his country, forgetful of his own emolument, and at last the office is abolished, by which ho suffers injury and privation, some mode of com pensation, oy pension or otherwise, perhaps, ought to he proviiti'il for Imti. Hut whether this ii. or ii not uiii a r-RM', it for tho Lvgiiiltilurp, nd not for tho Die otlicer i. Fleeted hv the two Hntisei on ioint bal lot ; an oath of office ii prescribed and taken ; the officer is reiuired to give bond for tho faithful discharge of the duties of his office ; and a Tacancy occurring in the recess, is tilled bv Hie (invcrnnr. It may bo questioned whether the clerk of the House or of the Senate is an offictr, or his situntion an office, but there con, I think, be none as to the State Printer, under the act of March 14th, 117. But it the " ohrr of State Printer " be a mere eon- tract, and not an office, it still does not at all make a case in whien a court of equity oould take jurisdiction u MiuiviuuiuH were parties, or give it power, in true cose, to act upon the Legislature. Take the case of an individual, as nearly analagoua as possible to this. A. emiilovn B. to render hiln some specified servico about his shop, or in Ins house, by contract, for a year, and is to pay him a stipulated compensation. A., for some reason of his own, dismisses him, and is about to employ another to do the sumo work, and 11. hies his bill, to compel A. to restore him to his contract, and enjoin A. from employing any one but himself to perform it. Would any lawyer, for a moment suppose thnt such an injunction could be allowed, or the bill sustained Suppose B. to have done his duty in all things, and that A. dii-missed him wantonly, and without cause, from his servico; B. has relief at law, but not in chancery. B. can recover damages for the breach of contract, if he performed faithfully, on his part, but he cannot compel A . to take him back into his house or shop, and endure him there, if, from whatever cause, he have become an annoyance ; nor is it necessary, ih defence lo nucn urn 111 ciiauccry, ior A. lo show that B. was dishonest, and continued always to get more wages than he earned, or that he was, in other respects, base fellow slanderous and abusive towards his employer and other inmates of his shop or household. If, by any inadvertance, an injunction, in such case, should have been allowed, a motion to dissolve, would be sufficient, at once, to dispose of it. If such a bill in chancery would not lie an individual being tho defendant, and if, nevertheless, it be sustained in this oase, it must be became the Lrgiila. lure ii virtually the drfrntlatU. I can perceive the pro. cess of reasoning which has led counsel to the conclusion that it can bo sustained for that reason. Tho complainant, in the case made in tho bill, would havo had a plain, complete, and adequato remedy at law, against an individual ; he lias none such against Ihu Legislature. Assumpsit does not lie against that body, or the sovereignty which they represent. The proposition I suppose, is, that you cannot bring suit against them, therefore you uioy in;oin them, not directly, for thai, I suppose, would not be contended, but so restrain, and fetter, and annoy them in the performance of their functions, that they will be compelled to i'o the will of a complainant in chancery, or cease to exist and act as a deliberative body. The bill, then, is tiled on this assumption, that the court, on the rcp-' nation of individuals, may in effect injnin the Legislature from employing A to print their bills, B to act as clerk of the Senate, (J of the House, D to act as sergeant-at-arms, and K as door-keeper, because complainants in chancery claim to have made l contract wilh a former Lcgitlalvre, to act in those several capacities for tliit, and they ask the court to say to that body, by process of injunction, (not against the Legislature, but against whomsoever they may employ,) A shall not print your bills and laws ; B and C shall not keep your journals j and D and E shall not build vour fires, and keep order in your lobbies and galleries. You shall have none of these things done, unless you suffer the complainants in chancery to do them for you. 11 .ne conn nau me power and the will do all this, they might compel tho Legislature to obey, and employ the individuals who chose to press themselves into their service, or cease to act for want of llin nlivsi. cal means to perform their functions. On this hypoth esis, the court could at pleasure put an end to lcgisls- louui.. i ma was a very ainerent power Irom that which belongs to the court, of refusing to enforce a "v,.iimr u is unconstitutional. It is within the power, and it ia the dutv of tho court, to protect the citiien from any illegal or opores. sive act, against his person or properly, dono or at- leuip.eu ciiner oy tne Legislature or tlie Executive i as, if a man be illegally imprisoned by either, the court may discharge linn on a writ of habeas corpus ; or, it his properly be seired or transferred, by holding the law or order to that effect unconstitutional and void, and the otlicer who shall have executed it a trespasser ; but the court cannot injoin the Legislature Irom making a contract to print their laws, because a complainant avert that they have agreed wilh him to print them. Nor could the court injoin the Governor from marching an army bv land to the lake shore lo repel invasion, on a bill filed by the owner of a line nt boata, averring that he had a contract to take them by canal. The last may be thought an extreme case-but if the power exist in the one case, it doea in tho other. So, too, if a commissary were about to eon-tract for auppliet necessary for an army, and bill should be filed by a complainant alledging that ho had contracted to furnish the supplies, and was ready to perforin his contract, the court might and if they have the power, the bill being tworn lo, they mnst injoin the commissary from furnishing food for the army from any oilier quarter until the case could be heard and determined, on a motion lo dissolve. 1 he boundaries which separate the nnwers several. ly delegated to the three greatdepartmenlsof our rov- ernment, are not so definitely marked hy tlie general designation in our Constitution, as to be obvious at once, even to the legal mind ; hence it is nol at all sur. prising, that even the court the least likely of all lo err in this respect should, in an incidental mailer liko this, pass the limits assigned in it by that instrument. ii siicu an error have been fallen iiilo, it it important that it should be at onco corrected ; and that the court, which ia emphatically the conservative department of our government, whose province it is ti keen the ml,. er department within their proper spheres, and to pro. iiiiiii Tensilon me rignis oi eacn by the other, and of the citiien from both, should itself abide not ft.r a moment in the exercise of a prohibited or doubtful iowri. As to the abstract equity of the case the iusticeof continuing the office, thai the plaintiff might continue to fill it, or if it be a contract and not an office, of suffering him lo go on wilh, and carry out hit eon. tract these are matters for the Legislature to deter. mine, upon a luu view oi all the tacts. 11 ia certain, ly expedient, so far as convenience will permit, that each successive legislative body should select for it-self the men lo perform such incidental services aa are neoestary in the course of legislation ; and it it an abuse unless necessity n-onire it for one Iriris. lalure to contract for those services, with favorites of their own, and fasten lliem. for Vesrs it. srlvsnea tin. on their succcessors, to whom they may perhapa be any thing but acceptable It would ao alrike ua at once, ii a Legislature should provide by contract, three years in advance, clerks, sergeant.at-arma, and door-keeper, for aucceeding Legialalurea. The case of a printer is equally flagrant, and even worse, if it or uuue merely to laslen a political tavonte of the Ixidy selecting him, upon the public treasury, and on future Igsiluluret, without any public necessity, or any regard to the public interest. And even if this were in very deed a contract, and if it were necrt-sarv, for the cheap and proper execution of the publio printing, that it should extend, as in Ibis case, ycart in advance, and even if it were made hy both parlin, in good faith, without any ainiater pnrioae, and there were no actual plunder, or attempt at plunder, in carrying it into execution, it does not nrceemrtfy follow that a future Legislature would be bound, in propriety or morals, to adhere to aurh arrangement, and retain the person so employed as a memlier of their hnue. hold and a sharer of llieir labors , for it might possibly happen, that he would be justly detestable lo majoii-ty uf that body : a common libeller, perhapa ; furnish, ed with means by his very employment to traduce anil vilhfy them. And if that should be ao, they ought not lo retain him no more than ought the master of a house lo retain a like obnoxioua and pestilent fellow in hia domestio employment, within hit familv and about hia household, because he had a contract with him to do ao. In both cases compensation should be made ; but in both oasea tlie nuisancs ought to bo removed. But these, I have said, are questions fr the Legislature alone to determine. J'ary may find, pern. ps, Iraud and combination, a disregard for the publio in-teresls.and a regard only to party, and selfish views, blending with tho election of, or contract with the in- ........... , .no uiey may rigntlultr act upon their eon- victmn ol these things, into Ihe foundationa uf which conn to iiioire. I Then, it this an offi ce Certainly it to answers to this oourl cannot examine. And if, for purposes surli as theao, the office were given or the contract made, it the whole transaction were a fraud npon the publio treasury, and an imposition on a future Legislature, thai Legislature is not bound, in justice or morals, to connive at the fraud, aiihuiit to tlie imposition, nor itidemiiily the party who has failed to reap all the profits which he expected to derive Irnin them. T. KWI.(l,f lt,f,n,Unl.. Roanrnr. Wo royret to learn that the room of Joseph U. (iilibons, Esq., at Ihe Kenvon House Mt. V ornnn, wss entered a few nights since, and tiO abstracted from his pocket lionk. A negro waa arrested on suspicion, but at Ilia latest information, nothing had been elicited leading tu the reoovery of the mo. ney. Xtinrenlle Untitle. We hope the villain who liaalliua plundered a worthy memlier of the typographical cralt, may be brought to condign punishment. .Mr. O. was engaged in tint ollieo during the past winter, and it about to com nienoe the practice of law. The Buffalo Courier thinks thai the damage done at that city hy the freshet isoverraled when il is staled at l(HI,0(HI. llnnksjiow,,,,, ln,i, w, rtlfri Mf Hint amount, and that a large portion of the loss will lull upon the Insurance (Joinpaniea. The stceiulKwt Rochester was insured only a law hours before the disaster occurred.